vincente minelli movie be usually worth your time while meet me in st louis and the bad and the beautiful . i await this movie with great interest . but what a disappointment . some come running be scene after scene of go nowhere fatalism . sinatra be a sad sack and return from the war to find disappointing family relationship and a disappointing floozy hang on him and live in disappointing dig a a gal persuades him to finish his disappoint write project . the movie have a big dramatic finish in which a disappointing villain catch up with sinatra and macclane and something disappointing happens . the sequence be intend to be tension fill but minelli be no hitchcock while he get so distract by pretty color and he doesn not notice the scene be a wheeze cliché and the character be so thinly drawn and poorly develop we do not particularly care that they get shot . ( especially macclane ) but that the only real cinematography in the project . otherwise we look at constipated character stand around bar and living room get on each others nerve for two hour . hell be other people and apparently . there be nothing go on in this movie . the dilemma of soldier return to displacement and indifference after ww2 be handle more deftly in the best year of our life . and either of two inge product and splendor in the grass and picnic cover the desperation of be trap in a dead end town and with much more poignance .