Film
The Lost Weekend (1945)
How daring can the screen dare to be? No adult man or woman can risk missing the startling frankness of The Lost Weekend!
Drama· Directed by Billy Wilder· 101 min
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.
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Top billing
- 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