All That Heaven Allows
From Douglas Sirk’s excellent melodrama, “All That Heaven Allows” – Ned has just made Martini’s for everyone…
- Harvey
“Excellent my boy, excellent.”
- Ned
“Well, I’m not sure the gin is as good as the brand I usually use, but the vermouth is fair.”
- Kay
“You mean those two little drops you put in?”
- Harvey
“Kay, I hope for the sake of my liver you’ve miscounted!”
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July 3rd, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Dude, well done! I’ve been wanting to start a feature on cocktailnerd highlighting drinks and drinking in classic films. I’ve just had trouble finding a way (and time) to get good stills and Sirk’s movies are a trove of Americana middle-class drinking habits. My first target is ‘To Have and Have Not’, Bacall bringing whiskey to Bogart’s room is classic and gorgeous moment. Love these types of things.
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Thanks Gabriel. I used VLC to take the above screenshot – seems like a great piece of software. I have a few more lined up, I only wish I’d kept a list because I vaguely recall numerous drinking scenes in classic films I’ve watched over the past few years, but I don’t remember exactly which film it is from. Very frustrating!
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I have VLC and it is a very good and versatile program and I didn’t even know it could screen capture. Good deal.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:25 am
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July 19th, 2007 at 12:22 am
Nice quotes!
There’s a pretty funny scene near the beginning of “Imitation of Life”, where the daughter makes highballs. I’m pretty sure it was the Sirk version, though, I’ve seen both, so could be mixing them up.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:31 am
I’m slowly making my way through Sirk’s back-catalogue, so I’ll keep an eye out for that!
September 25th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Hi,
Great idea to talk about films in relation of cocktails!
In the era of the films of Douglas Sirk, in Hollywwod, etc. it’s a real and interesting world in itself.
Do you have any section dedicated to American Tv shows too…? What about Dallas…?
Thanks for talking about this always wonderful film here.
My blog is dedicated and inspired by All The Heaven Allows, one of my favourite films in my life.
http://heavenallows.blogspot.com