Drama

The Lost Weekend

DramaFilm-Noir

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.

Year

1946

Duration

1h 41m

IMDb

7.9

Trailer

Cast

Billy Wilder

Director

Ray Milland

Don Birnam

Jane Wyman

Helen St. James

Phillip Terry

Wick Birnam

Howard Da Silva

Nat

Doris Dowling

Gloria

Frank Faylen

'Bim' Nolan

Mary Young

Mrs. Deveridge

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Mrs. Foley

LF

Lilian Fontaine

Mrs. St. James

Frank Orth

Opera Cloak Room Attendant

LL

Lewis L. Russell

Mr. St. James

AA

Andy Andrews

Alcoholic

GA

Gene Ashley

Male Nurse

Walter Baldwin

Man from Albany

Harry Barris

Pianist at Harry & Joe's

IB

Ian Begg

Undetermined Secondary Role

Eddie Borden

Drunk in Alcoholic Ward

JL

Jess Lee Brooks

Hospital Patient

CR

Charles R. Jackson

Writer

Charles Brackett

Writer

Billy Wilder

Writer

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The Lost Weekend

Demms DezzyNov 16, 2022

As a recovering alcoholic (14 years sober) this remains as the first great film dealing with alcoholism. Ray Milland"s great performance shows realistically the insanity of drinking and the struggles. The promises and hidden bottles will ring true to anyone who has dealt with the problem. Billy Wilder's career was noted for his comedies but he showed in "Lost Weekend" that he knew how to deal with serious matter as well. The ending shot is a classic and will be memorable for anyone seeing the film. Check out "Days of Wine & Roses" as well.

Nicki black❤Nov 16, 2022

In 1968, I was just 22 years old and driving a taxi part-time in Ft. Lee, New Jersey. One day, I drove Charles Jackson (author of "The Lost Weekend") from Englewood Cliffs, NJ to a run-down hotel in Times Square, New York City. I had seen and really liked the movie of the same name, starring Ray Milland, who did a wonderful job portraying an alcoholic on a weekend binge. The film was so realistic, I had a strong feeling that Charles Jackson had written the book based on his own life. I got up the nerve to ask him, and he told me that....yes, he indeed was the alcoholic portrayed in his book. We talked quite a bit about his life on the way into Times Square. He seemed like a very nice person, although he seemed quite depressed. However, it still came as quite a shock when, shortly after having him in my cab, I read in the papers that he had hung himself in his hotel room in NYC. That's an experience I will never forget!

바네사Nov 16, 2022

Don Birnam (Ray Milland, in an outstanding performance) is an alcoholic writer spending a weekend in New York without the presence of his controller brother Wick Birnam (Phillip Terry) and escaping from his fiancée Helen St. James (Jane Wyman). This Billy Wilder's movie is a great and touching movie, since the first long distance shot of New York approaching Don Birnam 's room (and the Rye whiskey bottle hanging on the window) to the end of the plot. Wonderful performance of an inspired cast, marvelous black & white photography, a fantastic direction and screenplay makes this movie a masterpiece. Even the moralist end is acceptable for such an excellent movie. My vote is ten. Title (Brazil): "Farrapo Humano" ("Human Rag")

Djamimi💓Nov 16, 2022

The script and score are superb and the acting flawless. Ray Milland is riveting in the role of a man who is as consumed by alcohol as it is consuming him. He lives and breathes for it and all around him become secondary including his long suffering girlfriend. There is always a girl like this in the life of a good looking useless purposeless alcoholic kept afloat by either a wife or other family member, in this case a brother who pays the bills and tries to sober him up and dry him out periodically. The score is relentless and highly avant Gard for its time, featuring music normally backing sci-fi flicks. Some of the scenes are profoundly frightening, his stay in the drunk tank with a sadistic feminine male nurse outlining all the horrors that await him and his DTs which feature a bat biting the head off a bird. Very well done. I felt the ending was a little too pat, that would be my only fault with this. 9 out of 10. Excellent.