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The Bachelor Party
The Bachelor Party is a 1957 American drama film directed by Delbert Mann and adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from his 1953 teleplay. The film stars Don Murray and co-stars E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Phil Abbott, Larry Blyden, Patricia Smith, and Carolyn Jones. Jones was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of an outwardly carefree party girl who is actually very lonely.
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.
As the drunken bachelor party proceeds, Walter feels despair about his personal situation, and wanders off. Arnold, who has become very inebriated, voices doubt about his upcoming marriage. He calls home late at night to cancel the wedding. He then sobers up a bit and changes his mind after a lecture from Charlie about the benefits of married life, despite Charlie's own expressed marital regrets and his seeming intention earlier in the evening to commit adultery.
We last see Eddie at a bar, engaged in an incoherent conversation with an older alcoholic woman. In the end, Charlie decides that married life and his struggle to build a home with Helen are worthwhile, and far better than the empty, lonely existence of his friend Eddie – whom he used to envy.
In a 1955 essay about The Bachelor Party, Chayefsky questioned the soundness of his original teleplay:
I am not sure to this day where the basic approach was wrong; but obviously the line of the story is six inches off from beginning to end, and the third-act resolution is hardly an inevitable outgrowth of the preceding two acts.... I wanted to show the emptiness of an evening about town, and emptiness is one of the most difficult of all qualities to dramatize.
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The Bachelor Party
The Bachelor Party is a 1957 American drama film directed by Delbert Mann and adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from his 1953 teleplay. The film stars Don Murray and co-stars E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Phil Abbott, Larry Blyden, Patricia Smith, and Carolyn Jones. Jones was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of an outwardly carefree party girl who is actually very lonely.
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.
As the drunken bachelor party proceeds, Walter feels despair about his personal situation, and wanders off. Arnold, who has become very inebriated, voices doubt about his upcoming marriage. He calls home late at night to cancel the wedding. He then sobers up a bit and changes his mind after a lecture from Charlie about the benefits of married life, despite Charlie's own expressed marital regrets and his seeming intention earlier in the evening to commit adultery.
We last see Eddie at a bar, engaged in an incoherent conversation with an older alcoholic woman. In the end, Charlie decides that married life and his struggle to build a home with Helen are worthwhile, and far better than the empty, lonely existence of his friend Eddie – whom he used to envy.
In a 1955 essay about The Bachelor Party, Chayefsky questioned the soundness of his original teleplay:
I am not sure to this day where the basic approach was wrong; but obviously the line of the story is six inches off from beginning to end, and the third-act resolution is hardly an inevitable outgrowth of the preceding two acts.... I wanted to show the emptiness of an evening about town, and emptiness is one of the most difficult of all qualities to dramatize.