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The Bachelor Party
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
1957 · Directed by Delbert Mann · 92 min · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 5 frames
Tagline
They'll live it up tonight!
Plot
Charlie Samson is a hard-working, married bookkeeper in Manhattan who is seeking to advance himself by attending night school classes in accounting. He has just learned his wife Helen is pregnant with their first child. He has lately been feeling trapped in the marriage, and worries whether he is ready for fatherhood.
Charlie and three co-workers throw a bachelor party for fellow bookkeeper Arnold Craig. Charlie is to be best man at the wedding. Others attending the party include Walter, an older married man who recently was diagnosed with severe asthma, and Eddie, a happy-go-lucky bachelor. The night becomes a turning point for all five men.
The party begins with the men watching short, explicit stag films at one attendees' apartment. They then decide to go bar-hopping. Charlie's fidelity to his wife is tested during the evening, and he almost has an affair with a young woman he meets on the street as they head to a bohemian Greenwich Village party. Meanwhile, Helen at home is disturbed to hear that her visiting sister's husband is unfaithful.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky
- Cinematography: Joseph LaShelle
- Edited by: William B. Murphy
- Music: Paul Mertz, Alex North
- Production design: Edward S. Haworth
- Produced by: Harold Hecht
Cast
- Don Murray as Charlie Samson
- E.G. Marshall as Walter
- Jack Warden as The Bachelor [Eddie Watkins]
- Philip Abbott as The Groom [Arnold Craig]
- Larry Blyden as Ken [Kenneth]
- Patricia Smith as Helen Samson
- Carolyn Jones as The Existentialist
- Nancy Marchand as The Sister-in-law [Julie]
- Patricia Smith as The Wife [Helen Samson]
- Karen Norris as Hostess
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Norma Productions, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions
- Themes: bachelor party
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