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Ray
Milland pickles his kidneys s: PJ Clarke's Saloon, Third
Avenue, New York
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THE
LOST WEEKEND filming locations
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CREDITS
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It
shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys,
yeh. But what it does to the mind? It tosses the sandbags
overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above
the ordinary. I'm competent. I'm walking a tightrope
over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones.
This grim, realistic study of alcoholism from Billy
Wilder, took the Best Picture Oscar in 1945, and
Best Actor for Ray
Milland as booze-dependent novelist Don Birnam.
It was made largely on location in New
York.
The bar in which Birnam pickles his kidneys is PJ
Clarkes Saloon, 915 Third Avenue at East
55th Street. This wonderful institution is, amazingly,
still open for business, a tiny oasis among the highrise
real estate of the East Side. This is the legendary
bar in which Johnny Mercer wrote One For My Baby
(So set em up, Joe...). The
barman's name was Tommy but that didn't scan.
The rumble of the old Third Avenue el
the elevated railway which ran past the bar meant
that many of the interiors had to be re-shot in a detailed
recreation of PJ Clarkes in Hollywood.
Birnam dries out at Bellevue
Hospital, First Avenue at East 29th Street.
His painful trek along Third
Avenue, north from 55th
Street to 110th Street, desperately searching
for a pawnbroker on a public holiday, was filmed by
a hidden camera inside a bakery truck
one quiet Sunday.
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FILMING
LOCATIONS FOR THE LOST WEEKEND
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TRAVEL
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New York:
Flights: JFK
Airport
PJ
Clarkes Saloon, 915 Third Avenue at
East 55th Street (tel: 212.317.1616)
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ASSOCIATED
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PJ
Clarke's is specified in the script
as the New York bar in which Connor Macleod
drinks in Highlander.
Sadly, it's not used in the film.
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