The Lost Weekend

- Oh, shut up. 390 00:28:41,820 --> 00:28:43,868 You should've seen her last night looking for you, 391 00:28:43,980 --> 00:28:45,869 her eyes all rainy and the mascara all washed away. 392 00:28:45,980 --> 00:28:48,904 - Give me a drink! - That's an awful high-class young lady. 393 00:28:49,020 --> 00:28:51,591 - You bet she is. - How did she get mixed up with a guy 394 00:28:51,700 --> 00:28:54,465 - who sops it up like you do? - It's a problem, isn't it? 395 00:28:54,580 --> 00:28:56,662 That nice young man who drinks and the high-class young lady. 396 00:28:56,780 --> 00:29:00,387 How did she get mixed up with him? Why does he drink? Why doesn't he stop? 397 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:02,468 That's my novel, Nat. 398 00:29:02,580 --> 00:29:04,787 I oughta start writing it out in the country. 399 00:29:04,900 --> 00:29:09,189 Morbid stuff. Nothing for the Book of the Month club. A horror story. 400 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,543 The Long Book of an Alcoholic". 401 00:29:13,340 --> 00:29:15,581 Oh, come on, Nat. Break down, will ya? 402 00:29:16,860 --> 00:29:19,101 You know what I'm gonna call my novel? "The Bottle". 403 00:29:19,220 --> 00:29:22,110 That's all. Very simply "The Bottle". 404 00:29:24,060 --> 00:29:26,062 I've got it all here in my mind. 405 00:29:26,220 --> 00:29:28,461 Let me tell you the first chapter. 406 00:29:28,580 --> 00:29:31,743 It all starts one wet afternoon about three years ago. 407 00:29:31,860 --> 00:29:34,704 There was a matinee of "La Traviata" at the Metropolitan. 408 00:29:53,420 --> 00:29:55,309 Check your hat and coat, sir. 409 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:57,187 - Here. - Did you forget something? 410 00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:00,110 No, just going home, if it's all right with you. 411 00:33:07,340 --> 00:33:09,468 - Hey, this isn't yours, is it? - It certainly isn't. 412 00:33:09,580 --> 00:33:11,787 - That's what is says, 417. - I don't care what it says. 413 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:14,187 - The checks must've gotten mixed up. - Maybe they did. 414 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:16,871 Find me my coat. It's a plain men's raincoat and a derby. 415 00:33:16,980 --> 00:33:20,302 Do you know how many plain men's raincoats we have on a clay like this? 416 00:33:20,420 --> 00:33:22,661 - About a thousand. - Let me get back there. I can find it. 417 00:33:22,780 --> 00:33:24,145 Oh, no, please. That's against regulations, sir. 418 00:33:24,260 --> 00:33:26,501 I'm not gonna wait here until the end of the performance. 419 00:33:26,620 --> 00:33:28,702 - Well, you can get your coat tomorrow. - Tomorrow? 420 00:33:28,820 --> 00:33:31,551 <i>Look, man, there's something in the pocket of that coat that I...</i> 421 00:33:31,660 --> 00:33:35,221 Well, it so happens I found myself without any money. I need that coat now! 422 00:33:35,340 --> 00:33:37,866 Listen, if everybody went diggin' in through those coats... 423 00:33:37,980 --> 00:33:40,631 There's regulations. There's got to be regulations! 424 00:33:41,820 --> 00:33:43,868 Then what do you suggest? 425 00:33:44,020 --> 00:33:45,988 Wait till the other party arrives and swap. 426 00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:47,431 I want my coat! 427 00:33:47,540 --> 00:33:51,340 As far as I'm concerned, mister, that's your coat. 428 00:33:52,820 --> 00:33:54,663 You're a great help. 429 00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:44,382 - That's my coat you've got. - And that's mine, thank heaven. 430 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:47,071 - They mixed up the checks. - I thought you'd never come. 431 00:34:47,180 --> 00:34:51,310 - You couldn't have waited so long. - Since the first aria of the first act. 432 00:34:51,460 --> 00:34:54,384 - You drop in just for the overture? - Goodbye. 433 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:56,629 Oh, just a minute. 434 00:35:01,340 --> 00:35:03,707 Oh, my umbrella, if you don't mind. 435 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:08,063 - Catch. - Thank you very much. 436 00:35:12,420 --> 00:35:14,263 I'm terribly sorry. 437 00:35:14,380 --> 00:35:17,190 You're the rudest person I've ever seen. What's the matter with you? 438 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:20,110 - Just rude, I guess. - Somebody should talk to your mother. 439 00:35:20,220 --> 00:35:23,190 - They tried, Miss St John. - My name's not St John. 440 00:35:23,300 --> 00:35:25,746 - St Joseph, then. - St James. 441 00:35:25,860 --> 00:35:28,670 First name Hilda or Helen or Harriet, maybe. 442 00:35:28,780 --> 00:35:31,226 - Helen. - All right, Helen. 443 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:39,583 - I also know you come from Toledo, Ohio. - You do? How? 444 00:35:39,700 --> 00:35:42,544 I've had three long acts to work you out from that coat of yours. 445 00:35:42,660 --> 00:35:46,870 Initials, label. Alfred Spitzer Fine Furs, Toledo, Ohio. 446 00:35:46,980 --> 00:35:49,142 Maybe I should've explored your coat. 447 00:35:49,260 --> 00:35:51,467 - But you didn't, though? - Didn't have time. 448 00:35:51,580 --> 00:35:53,901 Good. My name is Don Birnam. 449 00:35:54,020 --> 00:35:56,466 How do you do? 450 0