Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Days of Wine and Roses. Drunks are bores, but Jack Lemmon, wry on the rocks, is one of the most entertaining fellows who ever said cheers when he meant booze, and this is the best picture about alcoholism since The Lost Weekend...
Adapted by J. P. Miller from his television play and titled with a line from Ernest Dowson, Days of Wine and Roses recites the case histories of two alcoholics: a public relations man (Jack Lemmon) and the secretary (Lee Remick) he marries. When they meet, she is hooked on chocolate bars, but he pretty soon switches her to the sauce. Hour after hour she sits tippling with TV, and he is too busy watching pink elephants to notice that they are pouring their lives down the hatch. He runs through five jobs in four years before he crawls...
Strong stuff, and Director Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's) does not dilute it. The liquor flows hard and fast, and the scenes in the alcoholic ward are guaranteed to take the lining off a sober spectator's complacency. Then and always, Lemmon's portrayal is easily the most intelligent, intense and complex performance so far accomplished by an actor who started out as a light comedian but apparently can do darn near anything he pleases in front of a camera and most of the time do it better than any American cinemactor of his generation...
...Notorious Landlady. A silly summer shocker with Kim and Lemmon...
...Notorious Landlady. A silly summer shocker with Kim and Lemmon...