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The Lost Weekend

(1945)

November 29, 1945 1h 41m
76%
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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.

Billy Wilder

Director

Top Billed Cast

RM

Ray Milland

Don Birnam

JW

Jane Wyman

Helen St. James

PT

Phillip Terry

Wick Birnam

HDS

Howard Da Silva

Nat the Bartender

DD

Doris Dowling

Gloria

FF

Frank Faylen

'Bim' Nolan

MY

Mary Young

Mrs. Deveridge

AS

Anita Sharp-Bolster

Mrs. Foley

LF

Lilian Fontaine

Mrs. Charles St. James

FO

Frank Orth

Opera Cloak Room Attendant

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