Some Came Running
Dec 25, 1958 | IMDB 6.9
137 min Watch NowDrama, 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.
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