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The Lost Weekend

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  • Movie
  • 1945
  • NR
  • 1h 41m

Directed by Billy Wilder

7.6

TMDB audience rating
7.6 out of 10 from 700 votes

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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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Cast and crew

  • Ray Milland

    Ray MillandDon Birnam

  • Jane Wyman

    Jane WymanHelen St. James

  • Phillip Terry

    Phillip TerryWick Birnam

  • Howard Da Silva

    Howard Da SilvaNat the Bartender

  • Doris Dowling

    Doris DowlingGloria

  • Frank Faylen

    Frank Faylen'Bim' Nolan

  • Mary Young

    Mary YoungMrs. Deveridge

  • Anita Sharp-Bolster

    Anita Sharp-BolsterMrs. Foley

  • Lilian Fontaine

    Lilian FontaineMrs. Charles St. James

  • Frank Orth

    Frank OrthOpera Cloak Room Attendant

  • Lewis L. Russell

    Lewis L. RussellCharles St. James

  • Andy AndrewsAlcoholic (uncredited)

  • Walter Baldwin

    Walter BaldwinMan from Albany (uncredited)

  • Harry Barris

    Harry BarrisPianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)

  • Jess Lee Brooks(uncredited)

  • Jack Rube Clifford

    Jack Rube CliffordGuard (uncredited)

  • David Clyde

    David ClydeDave (uncredited)

  • James ConatyMan in Nightclub Washroom (uncredited)

Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Charles R. Jackson
Music
Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography
John F. Seitz