It""s not office politics or jealousy or any of that stuff.It""s booze! It""s booze!...We have more than a couple of drinks, we get drunk! And we stay drunk most of the time.Later, after going on a ""bender,"" a desperate and frenzied Joe madly tears apart and smashes the contents of his father-in-law""s greenhouse-nursery to search for a hidden bottle of liquor.Taunting him, they wore Mikey""s masks and accused him of being a "faggot," until he angrily arose from his chair, bashed Noel""s head against the cell wall(# 7 death)and then bashed Kendall""s head against the corridor wall(# 8 death).He passes the Rio movie theatre where the letters on the marquee for John Wayne""sThe Alamoare askew.The film""s familiar, signature heme song begins to play under the credits: "Everybody""s Talkin""" (sung by Harry Nilsson):Everybody""s talkin"" at meI don""t hear a word they""re sayin""Only the echoes of my mind.The film had its U.S.premiere, under the title ofHot Blood, on December 30, 1953.One of the film""s taglines on its posters stated:"Hot feelings hit terrifying heights in a story that really boils over!"[Note: Benedek and Kramer had originally collaborated on the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Arthur Miller""s critically-acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning playDeath of a Salesman (1951), with Fredric March in the lead role, replacing Lee J.