The Lost Weekend
“The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!”
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.
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Charles Brackett
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Budget
$1M
Revenue
$11M
Vote Count
683
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-Bolste...
Mrs. Foley
Lilian Fontaine
Mrs. Charles St. Jam...
Frank Orth
Opera Cloak Room Att...
Lewis L. Russell
Charles St. James
Andy Andrews
Alcoholic (uncredite...
Walter Baldwin
Man from Albany (unc...
Harry Barris
Pianist at Harry & J...
Jess Lee Brooks
(uncredited)
Jack Rube Clifford
Guard (uncredited)
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