Jack Lemmon

Lee Remick

Charles Bickford

Jack Klugman

Alan Hewitt

Tom Palmer

Debbie Megowan

Maxine Stuart

Jack Albertson

Leon Alton

Don Anderson

Lynn Borden

George DeNormand

James Gonzalez

Kenner G. Kemp

Harold Miller

Bert Stevens

Arthur Tovey

Charlene Holt

Mary Benoit

Ella Ethridge

Pat O'Malley

Mel Blanc

Gail Bonney

Dick Crockett

Russell Custer

Mathew McCue

Jennifer Edwards

Chuck Hicks

James Lanphier

Ken Lynch

Doye O'Dell

Jack Riley

Tom Rosqui

Olan Soule

Katherine Squire

Charles Watts

Russ Bender

John Bard Manulis

Leoda Richards

Barbara Hines

Patrick McCormack

J.P. Miller

Henry Mancini

Philip H. Lathrop

Blake Edwards

Martin Manulis

Joseph C. Wright

George James Hopkins

Donfeld

Betty A. Griffin

Carter DeHaven Jr.

Hal Lierley

Myrl Stoltz

Richard H. Kline

Jack Solomon

Sherman Clark

Jack McEdward

Robert Bain

Johnny Mercer

Henry Vilardo

Robert Turner

Drama

Romance

Days of Wine and Roses

Jalem Productions

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

English

It's as true to life as a vodka martini.

The above quote is from director Blake Edwards, it's taken from the highly recommended commentary track he provides on the DVD for this excellent and compelling piece of work.

Joe is a social drinker but he's social all the time, during one of his arranged parties for a client he meets and falls in love with teetotal Kirsten. They get married and changes start to dominate their marital bliss, he is stressed from work and drinks daily to forget the rigours of the job, she being the loving wife chooses to drink with him to help ease his pain, but soon the joyous days of wine & roses will turn to something dark and terribly turbulent, and this will threaten their own respective sanity.

The film begins with Henry Mancini's academy award winning title theme tune, it's a truly beautiful piece of music that perfectly sets the tone of the film for its first third, it lulls you into this couples love, the bond they share is a truly wonderful thing, it really is all sweetness and light, but then the bottle becomes part of this couples life, they become a threesome from which only dark horrors will form. Containing emotionally shattering scenes that once viewed can not be forgotten (witness Joe's soul destroying search for liquor in a greenhouse), Days Of Wine & Roses still manages not to force feed the viewer a moralistic stance, it lays down the facts of alcoholism and the perils of co-dependency with honest appraisal, we as the viewers are left in no doubt that it is us, and us only, that can make of it as we see fit, the ending especially is a particular poser of which we ourselves seek clarity.

Wonderfully written by the talented hands of J.P. Miller, Days Of Wine And Roses boasts marvellous direction from Blake Edwards and two academy award nominated performances from Jack Lemmon & Lee Remick, it's a testament to all involved that come the finale the viewer feels drained, yet strangely...not at all thirsty for the amber nectar.

This is an intriguing, heavy drama about the downward spiral into alcoholism, and how it irrevocably tore apart the lives of one man and his wife.  I have some respect for Blake Edwards, having seen this, as I previously had a low opinion of him after seeing The Pink Panther, which to this day I do not understand why it was so successful.  But I'm not reviewing The Pink Panther, so I'll lay off it for now. In Days of Wine and Roses, Jack Lemmon really is brilliant, and Lee Remick is disturbingly realistic.  The film is right up there with The Lost Weekend (1945), and the story carries an important moral lesson, which it delivers with a punch.  

Would I recommend?  Yes.  But to the mature viewer, who can really understand and appreciate it.

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