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Some Came Running
Drama, Romance
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy emotionally charged adult melodrama about wounded outsiders confronting small-town respectability and incompatible desires.
- Tone
- melancholic, romantic, bleak
- Payoff
- heartbreak, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- reintegration, conformity, class aspiration, romantic conflict, self-destruction
- Setting
- postwar America, small Midwestern town and traveling carnival
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