The Lost Weekend

• 7.6 Drama
• 1945-11-29
• 101 minutes mins

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, 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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Billy Wilder

Writer:

Charles Brackett Billy Wilder