Hollywood has used the subject of alcohol abuse in numerous movies like Billy Wilder's Lost Weekend (1945) and Blake Edwards' Days of Wine and Roses (1962), but never has it produced a film with the devastation of No Adam in Eden, although the novel sold few copies and was never released in paperback and therefore did not gain the recognition which might have made it a marketble film commodity. It is also such a depressing book, one without an upbeat ending, that its very nature may also have prevented it from ever being filmed.