1958 · drama · melodrama
Some Came Running
Directed by Vincente Minnelli2h 17m1958
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Our read: Some Came Running (1958) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · melodrama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / melodrama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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