the man with the golden arm (the movie) is a decent career vehicle for frank sinatra and but fails abysmally as a good adaptation of a fantastic book. you always hear about how books are changed when they are made into films things are cut out and dumbed down and etc. well and you can not even say they changed anything with the movie they just told a completely different story. the characters and setting are the same sure but not the ambiguous characterization and the depth of the men and women of polish chicago in the book. as for the setting and it become merely a play stage and complete with the unnecessary supporting role players walking all too busilly down the claustrophobic and interior exterior streets. the movie is a dumbed down and completely different take on frankie machine and drug addiction. when this happens and zosh and frankie and sparrow and all lose their psychological edge. frankie drumming and a modest dream in the book and becomes his full passion in the movie (probably because sinatra is a musician). and drug addiction is treated as shlock and exploitavely. the acting is decent and especially the snakelike louie and who is more menacing in the movie than the book. but it just a shame this kind of movie can be heralded as a classic alongside the book it is based upon and the real story of frankie machine. the movie just goes to show hollywood can get anything right without dumbing it down and adding a happy ending. in this case and they just changed it completely and cheapening an important and realistic story into hollywood fluff. i am sure as hell biased because i read the book first and so i can not really treat the movie honestly by knowing how good the book is. i actually thought about turning the movie off (and i never do that) and just so i do not get its silly plot confused with the beauty of the book. but this is an overrated film and and while it not so bad and the book should come first and as it was the first. and it should have remained the only story of division street and frankie machine. 
the man with the golden arm (the movie) is a decent career vehicle for frank sinatra and but fails abysmally as a good adaptation of a fantastic book. you always hear about how books are changed when they are made into films things are cut out and dumbed down and etc. well and you can not even say they changed anything with the movie they just told a completely different story. the characters and setting are the same sure but not the ambiguous characterization and the depth of the men and women of polish chicago in the book. as for the setting and it become merely a play stage and complete with the unnecessary supporting role players walking all too busilly down the claustrophobic and interior exterior streets. the movie is a dumbed down and completely different take on frankie machine and drug addiction. when this happens and zosh and frankie and sparrow and all lose their psychological edge. frankie drumming and a modest dream in the book and becomes his full passion in the movie (probably because sinatra is a musician). and drug addiction is treated as shlock and exploitavely. the acting is decent and especially the snakelike louie and who is more menacing in the movie than the book. but it just a shame this kind of movie can be heralded as a classic alongside the book it is based upon and the real story of frankie machine. the movie just goes to show hollywood can get anything right without dumbing it down and adding a happy ending. in this case and they just changed it completely and cheapening an important and realistic story into hollywood fluff. i am sure as hell biased because i read the book first and so i can not really treat the movie honestly by knowing how good the book is. i actually thought about turning the movie off (and i never do that) and just so i do not get its silly plot confused with the beauty of the book. but this is an overrated film and and while it not so bad and the book should come first and as it was the first. and it should have remained the only story of division street and frankie machine. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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