Frank Sinatra: Suddenly
Starring:Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Kim Charney, Paul Frees, Christopher Dark, Willis Bouchey, Paul Wexler, James O'Hara, Kem Dibbs, Clark Howat, Charles Smith, Dan White, Ted Stanhope, Roy Engel, John Beradino, Charles Wagenheim, Richard Collier
Director: Lewis Allen
Studio: Madacy Records
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
Average customer rating:
- Suddenly
- Entertaining rubbish
- Not for Suddenly Susans.
- Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns
- Suddenly
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Suddenly
Starring: Frank Sinatra , Sterling Hayden , James Gleason , Nancy Gates , and Kim Charney
Director: Lewis Allen
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Release Date: 2004-05-18 |
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Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
Description
See the legendary Frank Sinatra as you've never seen him before in this taut, terrifying thriller that was suppressed for decades! When the President is slated to pass through a small town, murderous John Baron (Sinatra) decides to take over the tranquil Benson household as part of chilling assassination plot. Can this madman be stopped before the country is thrown into turmoil?
Customer Reviews:
Suddenly.......2007-06-26
Shortly after his celebrated turn in "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra was cast as a cold-blooded killer in Lewis Allen's gritty thriller "Suddenly." Anticipating the Kennedy assassination by several years--Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly viewed it days before he killed JFK--"Suddenly" has the look and feel of a "B" movie quickie, but Sinatra's intensity blazes off the screen. Still thin as a reed, the actor excels as a human time bomb, while Hayden's Sheriff provides a decent, steady counterpoint. Only debit: that annoying little boy- but just focus on Ol' Blue Eyes.
Entertaining rubbish.......2006-07-02
Predictable ending to a typical post-war script. They are hitting you over the head without any subtlety. The theme is that pacifism doesn't work, sort of like preaching to the converted, since it is a POST-war film, not a pre-war film.
A war widow spurns the advances of the town sheriff and doesn't allow her 8 year old son to play with guns. There's your pacifist, the war widow. By the end, she's ready to kill the bad guy herself. As I said, there's no subtlety to the script. It is obvious, unoriginal, completely predictable, and therefore juvenile and uncreative.
Sinatra's acting is no big deal. It's laughable the way people rave about it. It just shows that any silly old nonsense can impress people. He's not terrible. He's just a non-actor doing a more or less decent enough job in a silly script. You can't compare his acting to his singing. He was an exceptional stylist as a singer, and a hack as an actor, as you should be able to see in this movie. To compare his acting to a singer, you might say he is the Freddy Cannon of actors. You remember the guy who sang that silly song Palisades Park. Maybe you don't. You shouldn't. It's nothing, like Sinatra's acting.
This film is nothing but stereotypes. I'd be ashamed of it if I had directed it. There are no real people in it. There are no believable lines in it. It's just one of those stupid stories of the early fifties to make a point, that Americans are this or that way, that we gotta shoot some bad guys. Okay, whatever. Sure we have to shoot some bad guys. You don't need to convince me. I'm not a pacifist. But I know a dopy script when I see one.
I'm giving it three stars for entertainment value. Even though the movie is dopy and completely predictable, it's kind of fun to watch. That's worth a few stars. The writing gets an F, the acting gets a D, but the entertainment value gets a C plus or B minus, and it isn't hard to sit through.
There's one part that is so stupid it cracked me up. Sinatra sends one of his bad guy assistants outside to check things out, when what he really wants is to keep his presence secret. So he sends out one of his bad guys to become very visible. Hahaha. And of course the bad guy is spotted and blows Sinatra's cover. That is the funniest part of this dopy movie.
Not for Suddenly Susans........2006-05-13
A long, withheld movie of historical and musicological interest,that has taken on increasing interest. Why? Frank Sinatra, the star, the Voice, withdrew the film following the assassination of JFK, because of the mob ties. Nevertheless, this B noir movie is better than you expect.Among the supporting cast lies a real WWII hero,Sterling Hayden, who gives a restrained performance, playing the sheriff in the small town with the responsibility to see that the president's train gets through without incident. However, Frank Sinatra and his gang of co-conspirators plan to remove the responsibility, by using his girlfriend's lofty house above the railroad tracks.
No one since the first screening has given this film digital enhancement in any way, which makes it play out like you'd see it in your town theatre. Although this begs for a modern re-doing, it stands on its own as a look at Sinatra the actor, playing a creepy thug with a chip on his shoulders. He plays it very well, as if the producer told him he would be getting back at all his detractors. Sinatra pulls it off convincingly, making everyone uncomfortable in his presence, as if he's going to explode like a bomb with a short fuse,emotionally threatening and leering at the same time.And he's not "Maggio" here either, the same punk "From Here to Eternity." Even Sterling Hayden admires him as he ranges like a captive lion in confinement. Psychotic, unbalanced and self-assured around his weapons or just handling them, it is one of Sinatra's most realistic portrayals. Just when the script slows, a glare or scowl from Sinatra and your pulse takes off. Sinatra made a lot of toss-off films, this is not one of them.For him, the part was probably like himself between rained-out gigs, holed up in Palookaville, as Gay Talese indicated in his short story,"Sinatra Has A Cold." If it is ever re-made, and I doubt that it will be, it is one film that is nothing without Frank.
Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns.......2006-02-01
This is a great slice of Americana, a true "Period Piece." Sinatra was a competent actor and probably could have paid the bills this way even if he hadn't been a remarkably talented singer. It's not everybody who can pull off a menacing tough-guy when he weighs 118 soaking wet. This film presents itself in stark tones both visually and thematically. Patriotism, courage, honor, sacrifice. The words necessary to make that into a sentence would only sully the higher meaning; and that's the feeling you get as you watch this film. It is sparse, but self-assured. Think of it as the lost episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Suddenly.......2005-09-26
Oddly enough I had never seen this show.. and I found it to be very good.
Average customer rating:
- Suddenly
- Entertaining rubbish
- Not for Suddenly Susans.
- Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns
- Suddenly
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Suddenly
Starring: Frank Sinatra , Sterling Hayden , James Gleason , Nancy Gates , and Kim Charney
Director: Lewis Allen
Manufacturer: Madacy Records
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ASIN: 630518495X
Release Date: 1998-11-03 |
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Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews:
Suddenly.......2007-06-26
Shortly after his celebrated turn in "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra was cast as a cold-blooded killer in Lewis Allen's gritty thriller "Suddenly." Anticipating the Kennedy assassination by several years--Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly viewed it days before he killed JFK--"Suddenly" has the look and feel of a "B" movie quickie, but Sinatra's intensity blazes off the screen. Still thin as a reed, the actor excels as a human time bomb, while Hayden's Sheriff provides a decent, steady counterpoint. Only debit: that annoying little boy- but just focus on Ol' Blue Eyes.
Entertaining rubbish.......2006-07-02
Predictable ending to a typical post-war script. They are hitting you over the head without any subtlety. The theme is that pacifism doesn't work, sort of like preaching to the converted, since it is a POST-war film, not a pre-war film.
A war widow spurns the advances of the town sheriff and doesn't allow her 8 year old son to play with guns. There's your pacifist, the war widow. By the end, she's ready to kill the bad guy herself. As I said, there's no subtlety to the script. It is obvious, unoriginal, completely predictable, and therefore juvenile and uncreative.
Sinatra's acting is no big deal. It's laughable the way people rave about it. It just shows that any silly old nonsense can impress people. He's not terrible. He's just a non-actor doing a more or less decent enough job in a silly script. You can't compare his acting to his singing. He was an exceptional stylist as a singer, and a hack as an actor, as you should be able to see in this movie. To compare his acting to a singer, you might say he is the Freddy Cannon of actors. You remember the guy who sang that silly song Palisades Park. Maybe you don't. You shouldn't. It's nothing, like Sinatra's acting.
This film is nothing but stereotypes. I'd be ashamed of it if I had directed it. There are no real people in it. There are no believable lines in it. It's just one of those stupid stories of the early fifties to make a point, that Americans are this or that way, that we gotta shoot some bad guys. Okay, whatever. Sure we have to shoot some bad guys. You don't need to convince me. I'm not a pacifist. But I know a dopy script when I see one.
I'm giving it three stars for entertainment value. Even though the movie is dopy and completely predictable, it's kind of fun to watch. That's worth a few stars. The writing gets an F, the acting gets a D, but the entertainment value gets a C plus or B minus, and it isn't hard to sit through.
There's one part that is so stupid it cracked me up. Sinatra sends one of his bad guy assistants outside to check things out, when what he really wants is to keep his presence secret. So he sends out one of his bad guys to become very visible. Hahaha. And of course the bad guy is spotted and blows Sinatra's cover. That is the funniest part of this dopy movie.
Not for Suddenly Susans........2006-05-13
A long, withheld movie of historical and musicological interest,that has taken on increasing interest. Why? Frank Sinatra, the star, the Voice, withdrew the film following the assassination of JFK, because of the mob ties. Nevertheless, this B noir movie is better than you expect.Among the supporting cast lies a real WWII hero,Sterling Hayden, who gives a restrained performance, playing the sheriff in the small town with the responsibility to see that the president's train gets through without incident. However, Frank Sinatra and his gang of co-conspirators plan to remove the responsibility, by using his girlfriend's lofty house above the railroad tracks.
No one since the first screening has given this film digital enhancement in any way, which makes it play out like you'd see it in your town theatre. Although this begs for a modern re-doing, it stands on its own as a look at Sinatra the actor, playing a creepy thug with a chip on his shoulders. He plays it very well, as if the producer told him he would be getting back at all his detractors. Sinatra pulls it off convincingly, making everyone uncomfortable in his presence, as if he's going to explode like a bomb with a short fuse,emotionally threatening and leering at the same time.And he's not "Maggio" here either, the same punk "From Here to Eternity." Even Sterling Hayden admires him as he ranges like a captive lion in confinement. Psychotic, unbalanced and self-assured around his weapons or just handling them, it is one of Sinatra's most realistic portrayals. Just when the script slows, a glare or scowl from Sinatra and your pulse takes off. Sinatra made a lot of toss-off films, this is not one of them.For him, the part was probably like himself between rained-out gigs, holed up in Palookaville, as Gay Talese indicated in his short story,"Sinatra Has A Cold." If it is ever re-made, and I doubt that it will be, it is one film that is nothing without Frank.
Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns.......2006-02-01
This is a great slice of Americana, a true "Period Piece." Sinatra was a competent actor and probably could have paid the bills this way even if he hadn't been a remarkably talented singer. It's not everybody who can pull off a menacing tough-guy when he weighs 118 soaking wet. This film presents itself in stark tones both visually and thematically. Patriotism, courage, honor, sacrifice. The words necessary to make that into a sentence would only sully the higher meaning; and that's the feeling you get as you watch this film. It is sparse, but self-assured. Think of it as the lost episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Suddenly.......2005-09-26
Oddly enough I had never seen this show.. and I found it to be very good.
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Famous Rat Pack Movies (Little Moon & Judd McGraw / At War With The Army / Suddenly)
Starring: Frank Sinatra , Sterling Hayden , James Gleason , Nancy Gates , and Kim Charney
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Release Date: 2001-10-09 |
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3 Great Movies on 1 DVD. Star Power, Exciting Genre with Extras on each DVD.
Customer Reviews:
Good old movies.......2007-06-12
I enjoyed the movies and even though they are old it was a good buy.
Famous Rat Pack Movies.......2006-08-03
Judd and Little Moon was an incredibly bad movies with the poorest acting I have seen.
The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie was marginally better
this is a waste of time!!!.......2006-06-24
the movies on this disc might be good,but from the very poor transfers here(droped audio,picture drop-out and freese pictures ,and all the movies were very very dark almost not watchable)you would never know. skip this mess and look for these movies elsewere!!!
One classic, two duds.......2005-01-02
I picked this up when I was first building my DVD collection. I wanted a copy of SUDDENLY but this was the only DVD issue of it I could find at the time. Being somewhat of a Rat Pack fan, I thought I was getting a great three-for-one bargain. While SUDDENLY is a classic film noir (and one of Frank Sinatra's best films), the Sammy Davis western comedy and the Dean & Jerry films are dogs. I'm gonna replace it with one of the bargain priced reissues of SUDDENLY that are now available.
Average customer rating:
- Suddenly
- Entertaining rubbish
- Not for Suddenly Susans.
- Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns
- Suddenly
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Release Date: 2002-03-19 |
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Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews:
Suddenly.......2007-06-26
Shortly after his celebrated turn in "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra was cast as a cold-blooded killer in Lewis Allen's gritty thriller "Suddenly." Anticipating the Kennedy assassination by several years--Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly viewed it days before he killed JFK--"Suddenly" has the look and feel of a "B" movie quickie, but Sinatra's intensity blazes off the screen. Still thin as a reed, the actor excels as a human time bomb, while Hayden's Sheriff provides a decent, steady counterpoint. Only debit: that annoying little boy- but just focus on Ol' Blue Eyes.
Entertaining rubbish.......2006-07-02
Predictable ending to a typical post-war script. They are hitting you over the head without any subtlety. The theme is that pacifism doesn't work, sort of like preaching to the converted, since it is a POST-war film, not a pre-war film.
A war widow spurns the advances of the town sheriff and doesn't allow her 8 year old son to play with guns. There's your pacifist, the war widow. By the end, she's ready to kill the bad guy herself. As I said, there's no subtlety to the script. It is obvious, unoriginal, completely predictable, and therefore juvenile and uncreative.
Sinatra's acting is no big deal. It's laughable the way people rave about it. It just shows that any silly old nonsense can impress people. He's not terrible. He's just a non-actor doing a more or less decent enough job in a silly script. You can't compare his acting to his singing. He was an exceptional stylist as a singer, and a hack as an actor, as you should be able to see in this movie. To compare his acting to a singer, you might say he is the Freddy Cannon of actors. You remember the guy who sang that silly song Palisades Park. Maybe you don't. You shouldn't. It's nothing, like Sinatra's acting.
This film is nothing but stereotypes. I'd be ashamed of it if I had directed it. There are no real people in it. There are no believable lines in it. It's just one of those stupid stories of the early fifties to make a point, that Americans are this or that way, that we gotta shoot some bad guys. Okay, whatever. Sure we have to shoot some bad guys. You don't need to convince me. I'm not a pacifist. But I know a dopy script when I see one.
I'm giving it three stars for entertainment value. Even though the movie is dopy and completely predictable, it's kind of fun to watch. That's worth a few stars. The writing gets an F, the acting gets a D, but the entertainment value gets a C plus or B minus, and it isn't hard to sit through.
There's one part that is so stupid it cracked me up. Sinatra sends one of his bad guy assistants outside to check things out, when what he really wants is to keep his presence secret. So he sends out one of his bad guys to become very visible. Hahaha. And of course the bad guy is spotted and blows Sinatra's cover. That is the funniest part of this dopy movie.
Not for Suddenly Susans........2006-05-13
A long, withheld movie of historical and musicological interest,that has taken on increasing interest. Why? Frank Sinatra, the star, the Voice, withdrew the film following the assassination of JFK, because of the mob ties. Nevertheless, this B noir movie is better than you expect.Among the supporting cast lies a real WWII hero,Sterling Hayden, who gives a restrained performance, playing the sheriff in the small town with the responsibility to see that the president's train gets through without incident. However, Frank Sinatra and his gang of co-conspirators plan to remove the responsibility, by using his girlfriend's lofty house above the railroad tracks.
No one since the first screening has given this film digital enhancement in any way, which makes it play out like you'd see it in your town theatre. Although this begs for a modern re-doing, it stands on its own as a look at Sinatra the actor, playing a creepy thug with a chip on his shoulders. He plays it very well, as if the producer told him he would be getting back at all his detractors. Sinatra pulls it off convincingly, making everyone uncomfortable in his presence, as if he's going to explode like a bomb with a short fuse,emotionally threatening and leering at the same time.And he's not "Maggio" here either, the same punk "From Here to Eternity." Even Sterling Hayden admires him as he ranges like a captive lion in confinement. Psychotic, unbalanced and self-assured around his weapons or just handling them, it is one of Sinatra's most realistic portrayals. Just when the script slows, a glare or scowl from Sinatra and your pulse takes off. Sinatra made a lot of toss-off films, this is not one of them.For him, the part was probably like himself between rained-out gigs, holed up in Palookaville, as Gay Talese indicated in his short story,"Sinatra Has A Cold." If it is ever re-made, and I doubt that it will be, it is one film that is nothing without Frank.
Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns.......2006-02-01
This is a great slice of Americana, a true "Period Piece." Sinatra was a competent actor and probably could have paid the bills this way even if he hadn't been a remarkably talented singer. It's not everybody who can pull off a menacing tough-guy when he weighs 118 soaking wet. This film presents itself in stark tones both visually and thematically. Patriotism, courage, honor, sacrifice. The words necessary to make that into a sentence would only sully the higher meaning; and that's the feeling you get as you watch this film. It is sparse, but self-assured. Think of it as the lost episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Suddenly.......2005-09-26
Oddly enough I had never seen this show.. and I found it to be very good.
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Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews:
Suddenly.......2007-06-26
Shortly after his celebrated turn in "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra was cast as a cold-blooded killer in Lewis Allen's gritty thriller "Suddenly." Anticipating the Kennedy assassination by several years--Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly viewed it days before he killed JFK--"Suddenly" has the look and feel of a "B" movie quickie, but Sinatra's intensity blazes off the screen. Still thin as a reed, the actor excels as a human time bomb, while Hayden's Sheriff provides a decent, steady counterpoint. Only debit: that annoying little boy- but just focus on Ol' Blue Eyes.
Entertaining rubbish.......2006-07-02
Predictable ending to a typical post-war script. They are hitting you over the head without any subtlety. The theme is that pacifism doesn't work, sort of like preaching to the converted, since it is a POST-war film, not a pre-war film.
A war widow spurns the advances of the town sheriff and doesn't allow her 8 year old son to play with guns. There's your pacifist, the war widow. By the end, she's ready to kill the bad guy herself. As I said, there's no subtlety to the script. It is obvious, unoriginal, completely predictable, and therefore juvenile and uncreative.
Sinatra's acting is no big deal. It's laughable the way people rave about it. It just shows that any silly old nonsense can impress people. He's not terrible. He's just a non-actor doing a more or less decent enough job in a silly script. You can't compare his acting to his singing. He was an exceptional stylist as a singer, and a hack as an actor, as you should be able to see in this movie. To compare his acting to a singer, you might say he is the Freddy Cannon of actors. You remember the guy who sang that silly song Palisades Park. Maybe you don't. You shouldn't. It's nothing, like Sinatra's acting.
This film is nothing but stereotypes. I'd be ashamed of it if I had directed it. There are no real people in it. There are no believable lines in it. It's just one of those stupid stories of the early fifties to make a point, that Americans are this or that way, that we gotta shoot some bad guys. Okay, whatever. Sure we have to shoot some bad guys. You don't need to convince me. I'm not a pacifist. But I know a dopy script when I see one.
I'm giving it three stars for entertainment value. Even though the movie is dopy and completely predictable, it's kind of fun to watch. That's worth a few stars. The writing gets an F, the acting gets a D, but the entertainment value gets a C plus or B minus, and it isn't hard to sit through.
There's one part that is so stupid it cracked me up. Sinatra sends one of his bad guy assistants outside to check things out, when what he really wants is to keep his presence secret. So he sends out one of his bad guys to become very visible. Hahaha. And of course the bad guy is spotted and blows Sinatra's cover. That is the funniest part of this dopy movie.
Not for Suddenly Susans........2006-05-13
A long, withheld movie of historical and musicological interest,that has taken on increasing interest. Why? Frank Sinatra, the star, the Voice, withdrew the film following the assassination of JFK, because of the mob ties. Nevertheless, this B noir movie is better than you expect.Among the supporting cast lies a real WWII hero,Sterling Hayden, who gives a restrained performance, playing the sheriff in the small town with the responsibility to see that the president's train gets through without incident. However, Frank Sinatra and his gang of co-conspirators plan to remove the responsibility, by using his girlfriend's lofty house above the railroad tracks.
No one since the first screening has given this film digital enhancement in any way, which makes it play out like you'd see it in your town theatre. Although this begs for a modern re-doing, it stands on its own as a look at Sinatra the actor, playing a creepy thug with a chip on his shoulders. He plays it very well, as if the producer told him he would be getting back at all his detractors. Sinatra pulls it off convincingly, making everyone uncomfortable in his presence, as if he's going to explode like a bomb with a short fuse,emotionally threatening and leering at the same time.And he's not "Maggio" here either, the same punk "From Here to Eternity." Even Sterling Hayden admires him as he ranges like a captive lion in confinement. Psychotic, unbalanced and self-assured around his weapons or just handling them, it is one of Sinatra's most realistic portrayals. Just when the script slows, a glare or scowl from Sinatra and your pulse takes off. Sinatra made a lot of toss-off films, this is not one of them.For him, the part was probably like himself between rained-out gigs, holed up in Palookaville, as Gay Talese indicated in his short story,"Sinatra Has A Cold." If it is ever re-made, and I doubt that it will be, it is one film that is nothing without Frank.
Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns.......2006-02-01
This is a great slice of Americana, a true "Period Piece." Sinatra was a competent actor and probably could have paid the bills this way even if he hadn't been a remarkably talented singer. It's not everybody who can pull off a menacing tough-guy when he weighs 118 soaking wet. This film presents itself in stark tones both visually and thematically. Patriotism, courage, honor, sacrifice. The words necessary to make that into a sentence would only sully the higher meaning; and that's the feeling you get as you watch this film. It is sparse, but self-assured. Think of it as the lost episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Suddenly.......2005-09-26
Oddly enough I had never seen this show.. and I found it to be very good.
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Man with the Golden Arm/Suddenly
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SINATRA'S FILM CAREER FOUND A NEW EDGE WITH THESE TWO SERIOUS ROLES! Total Running Time: 3 hrs 29 min
Man with the Golden Arm (1955) 119 min B&W
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker; Director: Otto Preminger
Fresh out of rehab for heroin addiction, a professional card dealer struggles to become a jazz drummer while his drug pusher and conniving wife both conspire to bring him back to his old habits. Frank Sinatra's riveting, hard-edged performance gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The film also garnered nominations for Best Art Direction and for Elmer Bernstein's magnificently jazzy score.
Suddenly (1954) 90 min B&W
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason; Director: Lewis Allen
A psychopathic killer and his two cohorts are hired to assassinate the President of the United States as he passes through the normally tranquil small town of Suddenly. Can the local sheriff (Sterling Hayden) save the day? Frank Sinatra is absolutely spellbinding as the snarling, cold-blooded assassin.
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Release Date: 2000-10-17 |
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Directly in the wake of his Oscar-winning comeback in From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra took on the role of a psychopathic hit man in this taut, low-budget film noir. The choice shows how interested Sinatra was in serious acting during the mid- to late '50s; there's nothing remotely likable about this angular, neurotic assassin. He's in the small town of Suddenly to kill the president, who is passing through on a quick train stop. Sinatra makes hostages of a local family and sheriff Sterling Hayden, and the film is basically a countdown to the president's arrival, with Sinatra's patter getting loonier as the day goes on. Aside from the interest of Sinatra's performance (very focused and downright perverse at times), and the film's place in the American noir tradition, Suddenly is uncannily prophetic on the subject of assassination. It's clear that the killer is doing it for the fame as well as the money, a theme that would crop up in later confessions of real-life killers or would-be killers. Perhaps the 1954 film was too prophetic; like Sinatra's Manchurian Candidate, this movie was pulled from circulation for years after the JFK assassination. According to Kitty Kelley's bio of Sinatra, Lee Harvey Oswald saw this film a few days before he took rifle in hand. Now in the public domain, Suddenly is generally available in cheap, scratchy prints. --Robert Horton
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Sinatra stars as a disturbed ex-serviceman, hired to kill the President of the United States. Sinatra leads the group of paid assassins that takes over a house in the small town where the President is expected to pass through on his way to Los Angeles. Suspenseful and thrilling, Sinatra in an utterly detestable role with a fine supporting cast as the family members who try and maintain peace during their home's invasion.
B&W
Running Time: 75 min.
Customer Reviews:
Suddenly.......2007-06-26
Shortly after his celebrated turn in "From Here to Eternity," Sinatra was cast as a cold-blooded killer in Lewis Allen's gritty thriller "Suddenly." Anticipating the Kennedy assassination by several years--Lee Harvey Oswald reportedly viewed it days before he killed JFK--"Suddenly" has the look and feel of a "B" movie quickie, but Sinatra's intensity blazes off the screen. Still thin as a reed, the actor excels as a human time bomb, while Hayden's Sheriff provides a decent, steady counterpoint. Only debit: that annoying little boy- but just focus on Ol' Blue Eyes.
Entertaining rubbish.......2006-07-02
Predictable ending to a typical post-war script. They are hitting you over the head without any subtlety. The theme is that pacifism doesn't work, sort of like preaching to the converted, since it is a POST-war film, not a pre-war film.
A war widow spurns the advances of the town sheriff and doesn't allow her 8 year old son to play with guns. There's your pacifist, the war widow. By the end, she's ready to kill the bad guy herself. As I said, there's no subtlety to the script. It is obvious, unoriginal, completely predictable, and therefore juvenile and uncreative.
Sinatra's acting is no big deal. It's laughable the way people rave about it. It just shows that any silly old nonsense can impress people. He's not terrible. He's just a non-actor doing a more or less decent enough job in a silly script. You can't compare his acting to his singing. He was an exceptional stylist as a singer, and a hack as an actor, as you should be able to see in this movie. To compare his acting to a singer, you might say he is the Freddy Cannon of actors. You remember the guy who sang that silly song Palisades Park. Maybe you don't. You shouldn't. It's nothing, like Sinatra's acting.
This film is nothing but stereotypes. I'd be ashamed of it if I had directed it. There are no real people in it. There are no believable lines in it. It's just one of those stupid stories of the early fifties to make a point, that Americans are this or that way, that we gotta shoot some bad guys. Okay, whatever. Sure we have to shoot some bad guys. You don't need to convince me. I'm not a pacifist. But I know a dopy script when I see one.
I'm giving it three stars for entertainment value. Even though the movie is dopy and completely predictable, it's kind of fun to watch. That's worth a few stars. The writing gets an F, the acting gets a D, but the entertainment value gets a C plus or B minus, and it isn't hard to sit through.
There's one part that is so stupid it cracked me up. Sinatra sends one of his bad guy assistants outside to check things out, when what he really wants is to keep his presence secret. So he sends out one of his bad guys to become very visible. Hahaha. And of course the bad guy is spotted and blows Sinatra's cover. That is the funniest part of this dopy movie.
Not for Suddenly Susans........2006-05-13
A long, withheld movie of historical and musicological interest,that has taken on increasing interest. Why? Frank Sinatra, the star, the Voice, withdrew the film following the assassination of JFK, because of the mob ties. Nevertheless, this B noir movie is better than you expect.Among the supporting cast lies a real WWII hero,Sterling Hayden, who gives a restrained performance, playing the sheriff in the small town with the responsibility to see that the president's train gets through without incident. However, Frank Sinatra and his gang of co-conspirators plan to remove the responsibility, by using his girlfriend's lofty house above the railroad tracks.
No one since the first screening has given this film digital enhancement in any way, which makes it play out like you'd see it in your town theatre. Although this begs for a modern re-doing, it stands on its own as a look at Sinatra the actor, playing a creepy thug with a chip on his shoulders. He plays it very well, as if the producer told him he would be getting back at all his detractors. Sinatra pulls it off convincingly, making everyone uncomfortable in his presence, as if he's going to explode like a bomb with a short fuse,emotionally threatening and leering at the same time.And he's not "Maggio" here either, the same punk "From Here to Eternity." Even Sterling Hayden admires him as he ranges like a captive lion in confinement. Psychotic, unbalanced and self-assured around his weapons or just handling them, it is one of Sinatra's most realistic portrayals. Just when the script slows, a glare or scowl from Sinatra and your pulse takes off. Sinatra made a lot of toss-off films, this is not one of them.For him, the part was probably like himself between rained-out gigs, holed up in Palookaville, as Gay Talese indicated in his short story,"Sinatra Has A Cold." If it is ever re-made, and I doubt that it will be, it is one film that is nothing without Frank.
Meat 'n' Potatoes with Tommy Guns.......2006-02-01
This is a great slice of Americana, a true "Period Piece." Sinatra was a competent actor and probably could have paid the bills this way even if he hadn't been a remarkably talented singer. It's not everybody who can pull off a menacing tough-guy when he weighs 118 soaking wet. This film presents itself in stark tones both visually and thematically. Patriotism, courage, honor, sacrifice. The words necessary to make that into a sentence would only sully the higher meaning; and that's the feeling you get as you watch this film. It is sparse, but self-assured. Think of it as the lost episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
Suddenly.......2005-09-26
Oddly enough I had never seen this show.. and I found it to be very good.
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ASIN: B00008G8OZ
Release Date: 2002-12-17 |
Description
Sinatra stars as a disturbed ex-serviceman, hired to kill the President of the United States. Sinatra leads the group of paid assassins that takes over a house in the small town where the President is expected to pass through on his way to Los Angeles. Suspenseful and thrilling, Sinatra in an utterly detestable role with a fine supporting cast as the family members try and maintain peace during their home's invasion.
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Running Time: 75 min.
Average customer rating:
- Suddenly, What a surprise!
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Suddenly
Starring: Frank Sinatra
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ASIN: B000286RA2
Release Date: 2004-06-29 |
Customer Reviews:
Suddenly, What a surprise!.......2006-04-09
I bought this movie in DVD format in a thrift store for $3.00. What a surprise of a movie! This is the story of an attempt to assasinate the President of the United States in a small town called "Suddenly."
The time period is the early 1950's. Some of the key components of the assasination plot are strangely reminiscent of the Kennedy assasination.
I absolutely hate Frank Sinatra as an actor, but I feel this part was cast just for him. Probably his best role. He plays the killer, and leader of the plot. Sterling Hayden plays the town's Sheriff. The Deputy is a Dennis Weaver type guy similar to Chester on Gunsmoke. James Gleason plays the "Crusty" Retired Secret Service Agent, whose house is inadvertently used as the place to shoot from. It's full of "characters" real characters. It's fun to watch the the towns people all try to get in on an important event. A visit by the President of the United States. This angle provides some great laughs.
A lot of suspense for the family whose home is invaded, by the assasins. I have watched this movie with my kids time after time and never get tired of it. My kids are quick to let me know if a movie is boring.
Average customer rating:
- two good sinatra films, good price, poor quality dvd.
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The Man with the Golden Arm / Suddenly
Starring: Frank Sinatra , Sterling Hayden , James Gleason , Nancy Gates , and Kim Charney
Director: Lewis Allen , and Otto Preminger
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ASIN: B000054OTA
Release Date: 1999-06-29 |
Customer Reviews:
two good sinatra films, good price, poor quality dvd........2001-03-03
suddenly is a pretty good movie and woth a look to see Sinatra playing a sleazy villian. The man with the golden arm features one of sinatra's best performances (playing a junkie), and features a good performance by kim novak. The bad news is that the picture and sound quality are pretty poor. If you want to see these movies, I guess it's worth a purchase. Hopefully better editions of these movies will be released in the future.
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