Movie
The Lost Weekend
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1945-11-29
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ray Milland as Don Birnam
- Jane Wyman as Helen St. James
- Phillip Terry as Wick Birnam
- Howard Da Silva as Nat the Bartender
- Doris Dowling as Gloria
- Frank Faylen as 'Bim' Nolan
- Mary Young as Mrs. Deveridge
- Anita Sharp-Bolster as Mrs. Foley
- Lilian Fontaine as Mrs. Charles St. James
- Frank Orth as Opera Cloak Room Attendant
- Lewis L. Russell as Charles St. James
- Andy Andrews as Alcoholic (uncredited)
Crew
- Billy Wilder - Director
- Charles Brackett - Screenplay
- Billy Wilder - Screenplay
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