A Five Easy Pieces for the postwar generation.

Great movie. Shirley MacLaine lights up the screen. Her first Academy Award nomination.

Some Came Running is an interesting mixture of compelling writing and tedium. MacLaine is certainly the highlight, though she seems so little a part of the story. Her character is mostly just a backboard for Sinatra until the last act. There are a few moments of profound writing, one scene concludes with a man admitting to his mistress "yknow you were 4 years old when I married my wife..." And all the moments of misogyny are definitely viewed critically.

This certainly drags though, at a runtime of nearly two hours. I did not care at all for the romance between Sinatra and the school teacher, which is unfortunately the center of the film. (5/10)