The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Van Johnson	...	Donald Martin / Eric Bell
	Joseph Cotten	...	Pat 'P.M.' Martin
	Ruth Roman	...	Nora Martin
	Jack Carson	...	Hal Breckinridge
	Margaret Hayes	...	Lil Breckinridge
	Bruce Bennett	...	Brand
	Brad Dexter	...	Stanley Miller
	Peggy Knudsen	...	Ellen Miller
	Jim Davis	...	George Cady
	Margaret Lindsay	...	Hannah Cady
	Nancy Gates	...	Mildred Martin
	Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez	...	Luis Romero (as Gonzales-Gonzales)
	John Lee	...	Jenkins
	Tod Griffin	...	Rancher (as Ted Griffin)
	Ernestine Barrier	...	Lucy Grant

Storyline

Patrick Martin (Joseph Cotten), known as P.M., is a wealthy attorney and rancher big-man-in-town in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He returns home to find his brother Donald (Van Johnson)hiding in his garage. A former drunkard, Donald had been sent to the penitentiary five years previously for killing a man in a barroom brawl. It was in self-defense but P.M. hadn't defended his brother and he was convicted. Donald has escaped and wants his brother to help him across the Santa Cruz River into the Mexico-side Nogales, where his wife (Shirley Patterson as Shawn Smith)and children (Kim Charney and Sandy Deschler) are in dire straits. The straits get even dier when P.M. tells him the river is flooded and it will be days before anyone can cross. And P.M. is all a'twitter because his wife Nora (Ruth Roman), whom he married after Donald had gone to prison, doesn't know about his jail-bird brother... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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