A Face in the Crowd

This was Patricia Neal's return to the screen after a four-year absence from Hollywood, an absence that was precipitated by a much-publicized affair with Gary Cooper (who was married at the time) and a subsequent nervous breakdown.

"Lonesome Rhodes" is in jail for a week for being drunk and disorderly. When he's asked to sing a song, he pulls his guitar out of its case along with a visible bottle of whiskey. It's highly unlikely the police wouldn't have searched his guitar case as a matter of safety. (He could have had a gun in there.) Certainly, they would have found and confiscated a bottle of "hooch," especially from a prisoner who had been charged with drunkenness in the first place.

Featured in Great Balls of Fire! (1989)