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The Lost Weekend (1945)
Directed by Billy Wilder
“The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!”
Drama · 1h 41m
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.
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
Lewis L. Russell
Charles St. James
A
Andy Andrews
Alcoholic (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Screenplay
- Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
- Novel
- Charles R. Jackson
- Director of Photography
- John F. Seitz
- Original Music Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
- Editor
- Doane Harrison
- Producer
- Charles Brackett
Details
- Release date
- 1945-11-29
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures
- Budget
- $1,250,000
- Box office
- $11,000,000