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Movie title sequence: "The Man With the Golden Arm"

For the opening of Otto Preminger's 1954 drama about drug addiction, title designer Saul Bass created striking, abstract graphics, including an illustration of a disjointed arm, appearing disconnected from a body, accompanied by Elmer Bernstein's jazz score. The graphic was carried through in the film's print advertising and posters.
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