Month after month, Turner Classic Movies provides the finest programming for soused cinema fanatics (and for film lovers of all stripes). In May, the whiskey will be flowing freer than ever, as TCM salutes legendary crooner and Jack Daniels advocate, Frank Sinatra. Ol’ Blue Eyes will own Sunday and Wednesday nights on the [...]
USA/88m./Dir: Henry Hathaway/Wr: Sydney Boehm/Cast: Van Johnson (Donald Martin), Joseph Cotten (Patrick “P.M.†Martin), Ruth Roman (Nora Martin), Jack Carson (Hal Breckinridge), Margaret Hayes (Lil Breckinridge)
The Bottom of the Bottle is a fine example of the kind of slick, Cinemascope soap that was popular in the 1950’s. Joseph Cotton stars as Patrick “P.M.†[...]
In the days before public drunkenness was considered politically incorrect, it was possible for a performer to make a good living as a character actor specializing in souses. For example, if you’re old enough to remember watching television in the 60’s and 70’s, you can’t help but recall the frequently belching inebriate that Foster [...]
USA/100m./Dir: Richard Quine/Wr: Elmore Leonard/Cast: Patrick McGoohan (Frank Long), Alan Alda (John W. “Son†Martin), Richard Widmark (Dr. Emmett Taulbee), Lee Hazlewood (Dual Metters), Melodie Johnson (Lizann Simpson), Will Geer (Sheriff Baylor), Joe Williams (Aaron)
It seems that there is an unwritten rule that moonshine movies are nearly always disappointing. Although the setting promises [...]
Jackie Gleason’s performance as Jack “Call Me Irresponsible” Griffith, the lovable, turn-of-the-century dipsomaniac/family man in Papa’s Delicate Condition (1963) is finally available on DVD! The previously neglected picture is part of a package of titles that Paramount is licensing to distributor Legend Films, presumably because the studio didn’t think that it could make any [...]
USA/B&W/Silent/87m./Dir: Charles Chaplin/Wr: Charles Chaplin/Cast: Charles Chaplin (A Tramp), Virginia Cherrill (A Blind Girl), Harry Myers (An Eccentric Millionaire), Florence Lee (The Blind Girl’s Grandmother), Al Ernest Garcia (Millionaire’s Butler), Hank Mann (A Prizefighter)
Seventeen years after Charlie Chaplin’s entrance into motion pictures (based upon the strength of his legendary drunk act), he produced his [...]
What do Ellen Page, Julie Christie, Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, Hal Holbrook, Josh Brolin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Booze Movies have in common? They were all mentioned in the Magazine section of today’s New York Times.
Columnist Virginia Heffernan recommended Booze Movies in the “Points of Entry” section at the end of her column “The [...]
Break out the Jack Daniels! May 2008 will be jam-packed with events to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of “the Chairman of the Board,” Frank Sinatra. An overview of the Sinatra celebration can be found at the Sinatra Family Official Site here. Below are a few highlights.
Warner Home Video [...]
USA/B&W/Silent/90m./Dir: Edward Sutherland/Wr: Tom J. Geraghty & J. Clarkson Miller (based on the play by Joseph Patrick McEvoy and stage sketches by W.C. Fields)/Cast: W.C. Fields (Elmer Prettywillie), Louise Brooks (Marilyn Sheridan), Blanche Ring (Tessie Overholt), William Gaxton (George Parker), Mary Foy (Sarah Pancoast), Mickey Bennett (Mickey)
Although W.C. Fields is mainly remembered as a [...]
What do Ellen Page, Julie Christie, Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, Hal Holbrook, Josh Brolin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Booze Movies have in common? They were all mentioned in the Magazine section of today’s New York Times.
Columnist Virginia Heffernan recommended Booze Movies in the “Points of Entry” section at the end of her column “The [...]
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