The Lost Weekend (1945)
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
101 min
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.
- Release date
- November 29, 1945
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $1,250,000
- Box office
- $11,000,000
Trailer
Cast
- Ray Milland as Don Birnam
- Jane Wyman as Helen St. James
- Phillip Terry as Wick Birnam
- Howard Da Silva as Nat
- Doris Dowling as Gloria
- Frank Faylen as 'Bim' Nolan
- Mary Young as Mrs. Deveridge
- Anita Sharp-Bolster as Mrs. Foley
- Lilian Fontaine as Mrs. St. James
- Frank Orth as Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Crew
- Billy Wilder · Director
- Charles R. Jackson · Writer
- Charles Brackett · Writer
- Billy Wilder · Writer
- Charles Brackett · Producer
- Miklós Rózsa · Composer
- John F. Seitz · Cinematographer