frank sinatra take this role and chew it up with the rest of the scenery and spat it out his way . tmwtga be stagey and the end be trite and some of the scene need a little more cutting and but that all . it great entertainment from start to finish and and while you watch it you realise that sinatra and that long dead mor crooner and have junky and gangster card game and the whole u urban hustle thing in his blood he do not learn it from an acting coach . there be all sort of directorial touch to keep you amuse and and the ( non date ) soundtrack cook all the way . the marathon card game beat goodfellas and soprano and etc . by forty year . so it wasn not faithful to the book . what movie be . and i can not imagine it be remember if brando have be let loose on it while the cold turkey scene would have be embarrass and instead of edgy and convincing and move with sinatra . no one else have mention the seedy and lazy and cynical cop absolutely spot on . and eleanor parker would have drive me to smack .