Suddenly

Fresh from his Academy Award winning comeback in 1953 s From Here to Eternity, Frank Sinatra surprised world wide movie audiences by following up that life altering triumph with the darkest screen role of his legendary career- that of would be Presidential assassin John Baron in Suddenly. With a plotline inspired by then President Eisenhower s train trips to Palm Springs, California, Suddenly finds Baron holding pacifist war widow Ellen Benson (Nancy Gates), her family, and the town sheriff (Sterling Hayden) hostage while preparing to shoot the President. In a tough, taut 75 minutes suffused with classic film noir elements, Suddenly presents characters alienated from their surroundings, men and women trapped in the dark side of a post war American society where the old cultural certainties have vanished. Portraying a psychopath about whom he stated : I have never seen on the screen any character as consistently brutal as this man is , Sinatra here turns in a dramatic performance which ranks right alongside his classic turns in From Here to Eternity and The Manchurian Candidate. Complete with neurotic 1950s underpinnings that spoke to the post war atomic age of anxiety, Suddenly packs a punch so powerful that for two decades following President Kennedy s assassination, the film was never shown on television. Now beautifully restored for the first time since its original release in October of 1954- a mere five years but lightyears removed from Sinatra s classic MGM sailor suit musicals with Gene Kelly - here at last is the definitive version of the film long considered the forgotten gem of Sinatra s extraordinary filmography.

UK Delivery:

• Free delivery on all orders of £10 or more.
• £1.49 delivery fee on orders below £10.
• UK orders are shipped via Royal Mail 2nd Class.

International Delivery:

• Flat rate delivery charges vary by country.

Dispatch and Delivery Times:

• All orders are shipped from our warehouse in Northampton, UK within 48 hours of receipt during working hours.
• UK mainland orders typically arrive within 3-5 working days via Royal Mail 2nd Class.
• International estimated delivery times:
• Europe & Channel Islands: 7 to 10 working days
• USA: 7 to 15 working days
• Rest of the World: 9 to 21 working days

View our full delivery infomation here.