Suddenly is one of those movies where the lead performance is so dazzling that any scene without them feels like a slog. Frank Sinatra is ridiculously fun to watch even though the story is simple, the other actors have weird and flat affects, and this badly colorized black and white movie has a strange rainbow shimmer and Ol’ Blue Eyes has brown eyes for some reason. Even though he’s teeny tiny and facing off with big burly dudes, he’s convincingly intimidating. He’s so go

This 1953 Best Picture winner, which also earned Frank Sinatra a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as well as six other Oscars, is the template for Michael Bay’s 2001 movie Pearl Harbor, which won none. The title comes from a Rudyard Kipling poem about soldiers “damned from here to eternity.” But the dramatic title doesn’t fix the main problem, which is that just like Bay’s movie, this is a dull melodrama that’s briefly elevated by historical events crashing in during the final min

Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Jules Munshin play sailors who each pick up a pretty lady and dance and sing around New York during their 24-hour shore leave.