Some Came Running – Vincente Minnelli BLU-RAY

Sinatra, Martin, MacLaine: Bighearted drifters run up against small-town ways.

After a round of partying he cant remember, World War II veteran Dave Hirsh is placed on a bus headed for the last place hed choose: Parkman, Indiana, the hometown Hirsh hasnt seen in well over a decade.

Frank Sinatra plays Hirsh, whose arrival in Parkman brings small-town hypocrisy to the unforgiving light of day in this character-driven tale directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on a novel by James Jones (whose From Here to Eternity led to Sinatras 1953 Oscar*). In his first screen pairing with Sinatra, Dean Martin plays a sharp-witted card sharp. And Shirley MacLaine earned one of the movies five Academy Award nominations as the good-hearted floozy with a potentially fatal attraction to Hirsh.