The Man with the Golden Arm

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Man With The Golden Arm, 1955.

Robert Osborne introduces The Man With The Golden Arm, 1956.

Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) is just out of prison and re-hab to his neighborhood in Chicago's Polish south side, and his wife "Zosh," (Eleanor Parker) hasn't yet been mentioned, so this is pure exposition, early in Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm, 1956.

Recovering addict and aspiring musician Frankie (Frank Sinatra), who needed a suit for a job interview, with sidekick Sparrow (Arnold Stang), who stole the suit, thrown into a Chicago holding cell, where another junkie (Jerry Barclay) is in trouble, in Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm, 1956.

Frankie (Frank Sinatra), relapsed heroin addict, having just realized he has to quit again, tries to prepare Molly (Kim Novak) for the horrors of withdrawal, in Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm, 1956.

Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra, title character), reluctantly back dealing poker for a living, visits Molly (Kim Novak, her first scene), B-girl at a Chicago strip joint, after his stint in heroin re-hab, discussing her new boyfriend and his disabled wife, in Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, 1956, from the Nelson Algren novel.

A junkie (Frank Sinatra) must face his true self to kick his drug addiction in Otto Preminger's groundbreaking movie, The Man With The Golden Arm (1955).