Some Came Running
- Frank Sinatra: Dave Hirsh
- Dean Martin: Bama Dillert
- Shirley MacLaine: Ginnie Moorehead
- Martha Hyer: Gwen French
- Arthur Kennedy: Frank Hirsh
- Nancy Gates: Edith Barclay
- Leora Dana: Agnes Hirsh
- Betty Lou Keim: Dawn Hirsh
- Larry Gates: Professor Robert Haven French
- Steven Peck: Raymond Lanchak
- Connie Gilchrist: Jane Barclay
- Ned Wever: Smitty
- Carmen Phillips: Rosalie
Damn it all is an American feature film from 1958 based on the novel The Uprooted ( Original: Some Came Running) by James Jones.
Action
Dave Hirsh, a laid-off straight out of the Army soldier and unsuccessful writer, takes the bus to his hometown Parkman that he left 16 years ago. He comes from Chicago, where his friends had him placed in the drunk bus. With the same bus comes to Ginny Moorehead, an uneducated and naive young woman who has left her boyfriend in Chicago to follow Dave in his hometown.
Dave's brother Frank is in Parkman a respected and wealthy businessman who inherited his jewelry business from his father and his wife Agnes. Frank suffers from the bad reputation of his brother and tries to steer Dave on the right path. He introduces him to Professor French and his daughter Gwen, in which Dave also equal in love.
Dave lives with his new friend, the professional card players Bama Dillert. Partly, he moved with Bama, whose girlfriend Rosalie and Ginny around the houses, partly he tries to be serious and to start again with the writing, to win the cool teacher Gwen for themselves.
Despite some fluctuations, but Gwen remains at a distance, and Dave marries Ginny, as he realizes that this not socially and intellectually has his level, but loves him unconditionally touchingly.
Raymond Lanchak, Ginny's jealous ex-boyfriend from Chicago, tries to shoot Dave, but it kills Ginny, who protectively in front of Dave.
Criticism
" A gloomy loser - Portrait on a novel by James Jones; carefully staged and in character drawing, marked by a rat- and hopeless social criticism and of bitter sympathy. "
Award
Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn received an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Original Song for the presented in the film by Frank Sinatra song To Love and Be Loved 1959.