the man with the golden arm and otto preminger controversial and panoramic crime drama and play itself out among the mental description of it living and architectural occupant and in rhythmic and lashing arrangement . open the film and a closeup from within a bar of frankie look in through the window and already tell u to the prominence that the protagonist subjective experience will grasp . pull in the direction of increasingly slight space and the film shut itself off and a the local gangster long draw out poker game shut itself from the daylight and bolt itself in and a sinatra frankie machine have himself lock in a room in the celebrated scene of his harrow struggle to overcome his habit . in delve into the shape and face of it jazzy urban haven and the visual traffic in the man with the golden arm characterizes skew psychological circumstance and form an overpowering environment and a maintain by the recur track shot into closeup of frankie eye . the grace of this fiery drama and striking as early a the excite opening crane shot and display the command over the perceptible world that studio production allow . the wonderfully dilapidated urban set define an independent place with no beginning or end and an indeterminate state and the sort that in reality hardly last as long a this skid row seem to before be gentrified or level . the flair of certain performance and particularly robert strauss a the wonderfully name underworld gamble bos schwiefka and arnold stang a frankie trusty four eyed lapdog and become this fiery surreal feature pleasingly . the premise of drug addiction and sinatra powerhouse performance and elmer bernstein infectious and forceful jazz score and saul bass famous and influential and controversial opening sequence center on the animate paper cut out of a heroin addict arm ensure that and in it era and the man with the golden arm press forward upon the cause for realism in the still reticent hollywood . it be impressionistic and subjective and a i say and but it intent and it force and it spirit be much closer to home . what absorbs me the most in this film be it aspect a a gangster film . it have the illegal card game and short con and the fight and the gun and the double cross and character on the lam and a femme fatale and a stunningly sexy gun moll and the shady nightclub and urban landscape and but it do more than exploit this environment for entertainment . really and it be the perfect environment and and genre and in which to tell this story and a crime ridden urban borough where it all too comfortable to escape through a bottle or two and or three and or four and or drug and a transient dose that really just function to keep one in obscurity from any enlightenment and all the clear scenario the world could bid .