The Lost Weekend
“The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!”
19451h 41mDrama
Released
November 29, 1945
TMDB Score
76% match · 698 votes
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About the Movie
Synopsis
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.
DirectorBilly Wilder
- Released
- November 29, 1945
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $1.3M
- Box office
- $11.0M
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
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
Lewis L. Russell
Charles St. James
Andy Andrews
Alcoholic (uncredited)
Walter Baldwin
Man from Albany (uncredited)
Harry Barris
Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Jess Lee Brooks
(uncredited)
Jack Rube Clifford
Guard (uncredited)
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