The Lost Weekend
1945
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
- Billy Wilder
- 1h 41m
- November 29, 1945 · United States of America
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.
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
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