* AdaptationDisplacement: The film is more well known than the original novel by Charles R. Jackson, [[WriteWhatYouKnow which was based on the author’s own experiences with alcoholism and writer’s block.]]
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/MiklosRozsa's score for the film was notable for it being one of the first American films to use {{Theremin}}, which later populated the soundtrack to many a 1950s B-Movie.
* NightmareFuel: Don's [[PinkElephants DTs-fueled hallucination]] of a bat attacking a mouse in his apartment.
** Don falling down the stairs is not too pretty either.
* OneSceneWonder: Frank Faylen (best known as Ernie the cab driver in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'') as "Bim", the night nurse at Bellevue's drunk ward.

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