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| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: December 25, 1958 |
Starring:
Arthur Kennedy, Betty Lou Keim, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Larry Gates, Leora Dana, Martha Hyer, Nancy Gates, Shirley MacLaine, Steve Peck
Summary:
Dave Hirsch, a writer and an army veteran winds up in his small Indiana hometown, to the dismay of his respectable older brother. He meets and befriends various different characters and tries to figure out what to do with his life.
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This film captures the disillusionment of returning WWII vets, and brilliantly addresses itself to many of the director's characteristic concerns--masculine fear of domestication and attendant resentment of women; the tensions of masculine friendship; women's complicity in their own oppression; the compromises demanded of artists functioning under capitalism.
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A rambling fat memoir about a soldier returning home to a Midwestern city, where his roughhouse, bravura ways tear the delicate social fabric apart, has lots of sleazy, low-life glamour on the screen. Scenarist John Patrick and director Vincente Minnelli made it work in this memorable 1959 film.
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