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  • 1958
  • Approved
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 1958
  • Approved
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 17 m

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.

Directed By: Vincente Minnelli

Written By: James Jones, John Patrick, Arthur Sheekman

  • 1958
  • Approved
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 1958
  • Approved
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
  • 2 h 17 m

Some Came Running

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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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.

Directed By: Vincente Minnelli

Written By: James Jones, John Patrick, Arthur Sheekman

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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78% Positive
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Wonderful stuff.
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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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78
The hypocrisy, sexual repression, and backwater snobbery here is enough to make Peyton Place look like Vatican City.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
75
If Some Came Running survives its dated gender politics, that’s all due to MacLaine. Her Ginnie—overly made up and yet disheveled, with hamburger bun crumbs on her sparkly cocktail dress—is the only one to lend the movie an authentic sense of dignity.
By Josh Larsen FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
50
It is all very complex and confused. Indeed, it is so oddly garbled that John Patrick and Arthur Sheekman, who did the script, have to go for a melodramatic shooting to bring it all to a tolerable end.
By Bosley Crowther FULL REVIEW
40
Stylish enough, but the plodding story inhibits the smooth sophistication of the film's stars.
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Production Company Sol C. Siegel Productions
Release Date Dec 25, 1958
Duration 2 h 17 m
Rating Approved
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Tagline From the bold, new novel by the author of "From Here To Eternity"
Website https://play.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GX3Uk2wzW5SjDDgEAAAJT
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 5 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Laurel Awards
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations

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