Academy Awards, USA 1958
| Won Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Jimmy Van Heusen (music) Sammy Cahn (lyrics)
For the song "All the Way"
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Paramount Pictures
Directed by Charles Vidor
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)
Frank Sinatra plays Joe E. Lewis, a singer not much different from his real life persona. He works in a Chicago nightclub run by the mob, who don't take it kindly when he decides to quit for a better gig. He loses his voice, and almost his life, in a violent attack of retribution. After a long recovery he becomes a vaudeville clown, which he eventually develops into a comedy nightclub act with some singing. However, his confidence is shaky, and he turns to alcohol, which almost destroys his professional and personal life. It's not much fun watching Frank's life spiral out of control or his harsh treatment of women. There is an anticlimactic non-ending making one wonder the point of it all.
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