Both Jack and Blake were drinking too much at the time. I can quite imagine, and without irony, audiences walking out of that film in 1963 with 'Phew - I need a drink after that!' Jack Lemmon is absolutely unforgettable as the awful alcoholic - scene in the drunk tank in straitjacket unforgettable. (He narrowly lost out on the Oscar to Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird - hmm - a difficult call. I would have gone with Lemmon, myself.) And where he destroys the greenhouse looking for that last bottle - I read somewhere he did it perfectly, with incredible emotion.. then the next day he got to the set and no one could look him in the eye... Where did I read this? It's not in 'Some Like It Cool'? And there was a technical problem with the take and he had to do it again.
And Lee Remick is also great as his even worse partner-in-crime, particularly in motel room scene.
Jack Warner only agreed to the film if it had a happy ending - ha, ha!
Jack Klugman we know from - what? I've never seen the TV Odd Couple. 12 Angry Men? And Charles Bickford.
Music by Henry Mancini, photographed by Philip Lathrop, edited by Patrick McCormack.
Very good, very adult and powerful film from that era, I guess Leaving Las Vegas the closest comparable thing of late.
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