Review of The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) by Delmore Schwartz for The New Republic — 23 Jan 2013
The film is a pretty good picture show, as we used to say, but anyone who has read Nelson Algren’s wonderfully poetic novel is likely to make invidious comparisons and be otherwise distracted, particularly when the film strives to narrow itself to a problem of drug addiction.
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This review of The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) was written by Delmore Schwartz and published by The New Republic on 23 Jan 2013.
The Man with the Golden Arm has generally received positive reviews.
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