The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 89% of the 412 1940s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes97%
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
684 audience votes
Key crew
- Charles BrackettScreenplay
- Billy WilderScreenplay
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- 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)
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Themes
based on novel or bookalcoholbrotherparanoiabartenderaddictionalcoholismflashbackfilm noirsuicidalblack and whitewriter