Come Fill the Cup is a 1951 film starring James Cagney and Gig Young, directed by Gordon Douglas.
He also loses the woman he loves, colleague Paula Arnold, after passing out drunk one day in the street.
An ex-alcoholic, Charley Dolan, takes pity on Lew, offering him a room at his apartment and finding him a job with a construction crew.
He also helps the lonely Paula return to work for the newspaper, secretly hoping that she will fall in love with him again.
Garr and a henchman rig a car in a bid to murder Boyd, but end up killing Charley by mistake.