The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)

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Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1956-05-19
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writers: Sydney Boehm , Georges Simenon
Language: English
Stars: Van Johnson , Van Johnson , Joseph Cotten , Ruth Roman , Jack Carson , Margaret Hayes , Bruce Bennett , Brad Dexter , Peggy Knudsen , Jim Davis , Margaret Lindsay (I) (1910–1981)
Runtime: 88 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Le fond de la bouteille (France, French Republic) , The Bottom of the Bottle (United States of America) , The Other Man (United States of America) , Дно бутылки , Beyond the River (United Kingdom) , The Bottom of the Bottle , Barreras de orgullo (Spain) , Över gränsen (Sweden) , Kapoios mes' ti nyhta (Greece) , Gefangene des Stroms (Austria) , Fundul sticlei (Romania) , Grænsefloden (Denmark) , Renúncia ao Ódio (Brazil) , 脱獄囚（1956） (Japan) , Gefangene des Stroms , Hayat fırtınaları (Turkey) , Дно бутылки (Russian Federation) , O Fundo da Garrafa (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Il fondo della bottiglia (Italy) , Le fond de la bouteille (Canada) , The Bottom of the Bottle (Canada) , Pullonpohja (Finland)
Plot: Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson)hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had been sent to the penitentiary five years previously for killing a man in a barroom brawl. It was in self-defense but P.M. hadn't defended his brother and he was convicted. Donald has escaped and wants his brother to help him across the Santa Cruz River into the Mexico-side Nogales, where his wife (Shirley Patterson as Shawn Smith)and children (Kim Charney and Sandy Deschler) are in dire straits. The straits get even dier when P.M. tells him the river is flooded and it will be days before anyone can cross. And P.M. is all a'twitter because his wife Nora (Ruth Roman), whom he married after Donald had gone to prison, doesn't know about his jail-bird brother. He introduces Donald to Nora and the rest of his Cadillac Cowboy and ranch society friends as an old friend, and is kept busy trying to make sure old Donald doesn't find anything harder that ginger ale to drink. Donald gets a telephone call telling him that his family has gone from dire straits to destitution and when P.M. won't get some money to them through his contacts in the Mexico side of Nogales, Donald knocks him down and grabs a couple of bottles of whiskey and dashes out of the house into the rain.
IMDB:tt0049027