Some films featuring views of drinking and bars, 1920s - 1950s: 1) _Miller's Crossing_ (1990): Wonderful movie, lots of drinking, in a bizarre, Cohen-brothers fantasy of gangland '20s America. 2) _The Untouchables_ (1988?): Mediocre movie, but all about illegal booze racket during prohibition. 3) _Dr. Strangelove_ : Okay, it's a little late, but Gen. Ripper's drinking habits (rainwater and pure grain alcohol) are part of one of the most hilariously insightful portraits of lunatic-fringe American anti-Communism. 4) _The Lost Weekend_ (?): Probably not what the Seagram's Museum has in mind, this is one of the earlist Hollywood movies to confront the issue of alcoholism in a serious and insightful way. Features a lot of bar scenes, which together amount to a really interesting portrait of late '40s/early '50s bar culture. 5) _Horse Feathers_ (?): Great Marx brothers movie about university pres. Groucho trying to build a college football team. Key scene takes place in bar with the famous password "Swordfish." 6) _Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler_ (Ger.,192?): Shifting gears entirely, this film features a lot of scenes of 1920s Berlin nightclub/bar nightlife. (Hardly why you'd want to see this movie, tho', which is a great classic for any number of other reasons). Sequel, _The Testament of Dr. Mabuse_, also dir. by Fritz Lang , dates from 1932, and contains a fair number of nightlife scenes as well, but they are a bit less visually flamboyant, and dramatically less important, than in the earlier film. 7) _Mr. Deeds Goes to Town_: Already mentioned for its courtroom sequence, another key sequence features Deeds getting drunk and going on a spree around Manhatten which gets reported rather negatively in the NY papers. 8) _It's A Wonderful Life_: In the decade between _Deeds_ and _Life_ drinking appears, for Capra, to have gone from being a humorous pecadillo, blown out of proportion by the press, to the central symbol of social evil in the Bedford Falls that would have been had there been no George Bailey. Thank heavens for S & L s!!! I'm sure I'll think of more, but really, like court scenes, there are so many drinking scenes (and drunk scenes) in Hollywood flix c. 1933 - 1960 that the list is really endless . . . -- Ben Alpers Princeton University (NB: Neither my opinions, nor my drinking habits, necessarily reflect those of Princeton University.)