Starts off absolutely boring and bad with some terrible voice-overs and hammy acting, but once Sinatra strolls into the film, it gets going really well. A great performance by Ol' Blue Eyes. Fun noir.
In the town of Suddenly, not a whole lot happens until... you get it. This 1954 noir stars Frank Sinatra as a would-be presidential assassin who takes over a small town household to stage his crime as a train carrying the POTUS is set to make a pit stop. Sinatra is pretty much the reason to watch this, thoroughly a bad guy, but one with a big mouth. And where there's so much hubris, there's weakness. His hostages, including the wounded town sheriff played by Sterling Hayden, might just be able to exploit it. Hayden is a bit disappointing, his butch delivery working in tandem with his stiff upper lip to drain the emotional credibility from his character, but the rest of the cast is good, and the solutions to problems, both the baddies' and goodies', are well thought out. It starts off quietly, with subplots about church dates and broken televisions, but that's part of the conceit (judging by the title); it soon turns into a tense, claustrophobic thriller. It could have gone a bit further with the pacifist mom, however. Her arc is tepid where it should have been central and gut-wrenching.
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Clara Bow
Sinatra is the only good thing about this film; great performance from him. pretty bad movie otherwise.caley
Starts off absolutely boring and bad with some terrible voice-overs and hammy acting, but once Sinatra strolls into the film, it gets going really well. A great performance by Ol' Blue Eyes. Fun noir.nbats
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7/10American classic with Sinatra. Very well played/acted!
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In the town of Suddenly, not a whole lot happens until... you get it. This 1954 noir stars Frank Sinatra as a would-be presidential assassin who takes over a small town household to stage his crime as a train carrying the POTUS is set to make a pit stop. Sinatra is pretty much the reason to watch this, thoroughly a bad guy, but one with a big mouth. And where there's so much hubris, there's weakness. His hostages, including the wounded town sheriff played by Sterling Hayden, might just be able to exploit it. Hayden is a bit disappointing, his butch delivery working in tandem with his stiff upper lip to drain the emotional credibility from his character, but the rest of the cast is good, and the solutions to problems, both the baddies' and goodies', are well thought out. It starts off quietly, with subplots about church dates and broken televisions, but that's part of the conceit (judging by the title); it soon turns into a tense, claustrophobic thriller. It could have gone a bit further with the pacifist mom, however. Her arc is tepid where it should have been central and gut-wrenching.si_reid
I really enjoyed this, Sinatra as a heel is superb