I was 23 and I was really starting to dig into film's history. I'd just moved to Austin, Texas, and I was voracious - I was watching maybe 600 films a year. And then I came across a campus screening of Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running. I didn't take it on as a "Oh here's a great film you have to see" - it's just something I wandered into.
Richard Linklater on Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running
Frank Sinatra stars in the James Jones adaptation. TCM has the trailer. It's the minor films that make all the difference.