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And just to break with routine here are my Alcohol films. Withnail And I Animal House Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? The Worlds End Shaun Of The Dead The Shining The Man Who Fell To Earth Wake In Fright Educating Rita Grabbers The Untouchables And a quick mention for "Them Thar Hills" a brilliant half measure of Laurel and Hardy.
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I love the film but don't recall much boozing, especially given the subject. |
#3164
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As it's all to do with Eliot Ness and his efforts to bring down Al Capone's illegal liquor business during Prohibition-era America, it is all to do with the control of alcohol, and people wishing to consume the illegal substance.
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As I mentioned earlier, I tried to avoid Prohibition, but found making a list of only 10 films about alcohol or an alcoholic/alcoholics very difficult, so this is my top 15:
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Its a genuine shock this weeks topic was not an idea from Dem or Harker
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I've been tee-total for three months. |
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What Nos no.1 said Dem.
__________________ MIKE: I've got it! Peter Cushing! We've got to drive a stake through his heart! VYVYAN: Great! I'll get the car! NEIL: I'll get a cushion. |
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__________________ People try to put us down Just because we get around Golly, Gee! it's wrong to be so guilty |
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Ok I'm TRYING to deal with films where alcohol is a specific focus of the plot.. I'm making my life difficult perhaps... 220px-Streettrash.jpg whiskey galore.jpg barfly.22067.jpg Leaving_las_vegas_ver1.jpg The_Lost_Weekend_poster.jpg Nil_by_mouth_poster.jpg 16_harvey2.jpg untouchablesposter.jpg comedy of terrors poster.jpg Withnail_and_i_poster.jpg |
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