The Lost Weekend
1945 · Movie · 1h 41m · NR
Drama
"The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!"
Overview
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Key crew
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- Charles BrackettScreenplay
- Billy WilderScreenplay
- Billy WilderDirector
Cast
- Ray MillandDon Birnam
- Jane WymanHelen St. James
- Phillip TerryWick Birnam
- Howard Da SilvaNat the Bartender
- Doris DowlingGloria
- Frank Faylen'Bim' Nolan
- Mary YoungMrs. Deveridge
- Anita Sharp-BolsterMrs. Foley
- Lilian FontaineMrs. Charles St. James
- Frank OrthOpera Cloak Room Attendant
- Lewis L. RussellCharles St. James
- Andy AndrewsAlcoholic (uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
based on novel or bookalcoholbrotherparanoiabartenderaddictionalcoholismflashbackfilm noirsuicidalblack and whitewriter