The Lost Weekend
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
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- Drama
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- addiction
- flashback
- paranoia
- alcoholism
- writer
- alcoholic
- black and white
- brother
- alcohol
- bartender
- film noir
- dishonesty
- devoted girlfriend
- low self esteem
- lies
- suicidal
- hopelessness
- bats
- delirium tremens
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 29, 1945
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Al Stewart,Phillip Terry,Ernest Hilliard,Walter Baldwin,Harry Barris,William O'Leary,Jack Rube Clifford,Howard Da Silva,Byron Foulger,James Conatyand 50 more
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Producer
- Charles Brackett
- Cinematography
- John F. Seitz
- Music
- Miklós Rózsa
- Budget
- $1,250,000
- Revenue
- $11,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0037884