The Lost Weekend (1945)
29/11/1945
Drama
1h 41m
- 76% (604 votes)
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The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
Overview
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, 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.
- Billy WilderDirector, Screenplay
- Charles BrackettScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$1,250,000
Revenue
$11,000,000
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- alcohol
- brother
- paranoia
- bartender
- addiction
- alcoholism
- flashback
- film noir
- suicidal
- black and white
- writer
- alcoholic
- bats
- low self esteem
- dishonesty
- hopelessness
- delirium tremens
- lies
- devoted girlfriend
Top Billed Cast
Ray Milland
Don Birnam
Jane Wyman
Helen St. James
Phillip Terry
Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva
Nat the Bartender
Doris Dowling
Gloria
Frank Faylen
'Bim' Nolan
Mary Young
Mrs. Deveridge
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Mrs. Foley
Lilian Fontaine
Mrs. Charles St. James
Frank Orth
Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Recommendations
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil (63%)
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