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Where's The US TV Version ? (SPOILERS)


The original version of " Days Of Wine and Roses " was done for US TV , for CBS's " Playhouse 90 " , starring Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie as Joe and Kirsten , and directed by John Frankenheimer . Why doesn't IMDB list it ? They list TV programs considerably more obscure than it .
The TV " DOWAR " was , in fact , perhaps the most famous ( Bar " Marty " ????? ) of " The Golden Age Of TV Drama " productions in the 1950s USA - before I was born !!!!!!!!! ( Perhaps there's a connection ? Ah hah ha hah hah hah hah ha hah . )
I suppose that it's never been on DVD , but the taped show ( on kinescope ) very much exists - It was on VHS , which some Amazon.Com sellers still offer , and I saw it on American AMC in the late Nineties back to back with the movie version !!!!!!!!!
It differs , for one , through being told in flashback , starting with Joe's arrival at his first AA meeting , with a melo-" dram " -tic touch where Joe , nervous , drinks a last drink just outside the AA meeting before going in , with a big dramatic shadow thrown upon the wall --- And in Kirsten's background .
In the TV version , Kirsten , when she meets Joe , is a social drinker like Joe is .
They fall into alchoholism together , rather than Joe " despoiling " the " innocent virgin " Kirsten . Hollywood wanted that touch ?????????
Oh , by the way , at the very beginning of Edwards' movie , when the ship is wrecked --- Did any sailors then actually dress like that ???????

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The version you're talking about is commercially available on VHS. The last time I checked, it was in IMDB as well. Look up John Frankenheimer and you'll find it.

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It's on YouTube too; just watched the whole thing a few days ago...stays pretty true to the story.

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