Some Came Running

Dir. Vincente Minnelli. 1958, 137 mins. U.S. 35mm. With Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy. Minnelli’s phenomenally directed and acted tale of rootlessness in post–World War II America stars Frank Sinatra as a war veteran and former writer who has fallen into alcoholism, and who returns to his Indiana hometown to find nothing is quite as he remembered it. Dean Martin is the unrepentant gambler whom he befriends, and Shirley MacLaine is heartbreaking in a signature early role as a wayward woman who limps after him, hoping he will love her. One of the great American melodramas of the 1950s, this CinemaScope adaptation of James Jones’s novel builds to a frenetic carnival climax that is among Minnelli’s finest achievements. Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth / $7 MoMI members. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership. Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.