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The Lost Weekend

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Writer Don Birnam (Ray Milland) is on the wagon. Sober for only a few days, Don is supposed to be spending the weekend with his brother, Wick (Phillip Terry), but, eager for a drink, Don convinces his girlfriend (Jane Wyman) to take Wick to a show. Don, meanwhile, heads to his local bar and misses the train out of town. After recounting to the bartender (Howard da Silva) how he developed a drinking problem, Don goes on a weekend-long bender that just might prove to be his last.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth, Lewis L. Russell, ...»

Director:

Billy Wilder

Country:

United States

Release:

1945

IMDb:

7.9

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Duration:

101 min

KEYWORDS:

#Billy Wilder #Howard Da Silva #Jane Wyman #Le poison (1945) #Phillip Terry #Ray Milland #The Lost Weekend

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ACTORS OF "The Lost Weekend"

Ray Milland

3 January 1905, Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK

Jane Wyman

5 January 1917, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

Phillip Terry

7 March 1909, San Francisco, California, USA

Howard Da Silva

4 May 1909, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Doris Dowling

15 May 1923, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Frank Faylen

8 December 1905, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Mary Young

June 21, 1879 in New York City, New York, USA

Anita Sharp-Bolster

28 August 1895, Glenlohane, Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland

Lilian Fontaine

June 11, 1886 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Frank Orth

21 February 1880, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Lewis L. Russell

September 10, 1889 in Farmington, Illinois, USA

Walter Baldwin

January 2, 1889 in Lima, Ohio, USA

Eddie Borden

May 1, 1888 in Deer Lodge, Tennessee, USA

Jack Rube Clifford

December 25, 1888 in Elmira, New York, USA

David Clyde

27 March 1885, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, UK

James Conaty

December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Willa Pearl Curtis

21 March 1896, Texas, USA

Helen Dickson

July 20, 1885 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA

Franklyn Farnum

5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Dick Gordon

June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Ted Hecht

February 17, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA

Earle Hyman

11 October 1926, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA

Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky

21 September 1918, Prakfalva, Austria-Hungary [now Prakovce, Slovakia]

Perc Launders

October 11, 1904 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Bertram Marburgh

May 17, 1875 in New York City, New York, USA

William Meader

4 July 1904, Massachusetts, USA

James Millican

17 February 1910, Palisades, New Jersey, USA

Frank Mills

26 January 1891, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

Pat Moriarity

January 27, 1896 in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland

William Newell

January 6, 1894 in Millville, New Jersey, USA

Stanley Price

December 31, 1892 in Atchison, Kansas, USA

Craig Reynolds

July 15, 1907 in Anaheim, California, USA

Lester Sharpe

March 21, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA

Lee Shumway

March 4, 1884 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Sophie

Douglas Spencer

10 February 1910, Princeton, Illinois, USA

Harry Tenbrook

9 October 1887, Oslo, Norway

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

5 January 1906, North Carolina, USA

Emmett Vogan

September 27, 1893 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Max Wagner

28 November 1901, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico

Gisela Werbisek

April 8, 1875 in Preßburg, Austria-Hungary [now Bratislava, Slovakia]

Crane Whitley

28 October 1899, New York City, New York, USA

Ernest Whitman

February 21, 1893 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA

Isabel Withers

January 20, 1896 in Frankton, Indiana, USA

CREATORS OF "The Lost Weekend"

Charles Brackett

26 November 1892, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA

Charles R. Jackson

1903 in Summit, New Jersey, USA

HEROES OF "The Lost Weekend"

Don Birnam

Played by: Ray Milland

Helen St. James

Played by: Jane Wyman

Wick Birnam

Played by: Phillip Terry

Nat

Played by: Howard Da Silva

Gloria

Played by: Doris Dowling

'Bim' Nolan

Played by: Frank Faylen

Mrs. Deveridge

Played by: Mary Young

Mrs. St. James

Played by: Lilian Fontaine

Mr. St. James

Played by: Lewis L. Russell

CRITICS OF "The Lost Weekend"

Observer (UK)

Although ultimately less bleak than Charles Jackson's autobiographical novel, the film is uncompromising in its depiction of the lies, self-deception and degradation that alcoholism leads to.

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TIME Magazine

Director Billy Wilder's technique of photographing Third Avenue in the grey morning sunlight with a concealed camera to keep the crowds from being self-conscious gives this sequence the shock of reality.

February 17, 2009

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CinePassion

Dry alkies and wet teetotalers perpetually out of balance, startlingly laid out by Wilder as a lonely metropolis' quivering nervous system

March 13, 2016

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New York Times

A shatteringly realistic and morbidly fascinating film.

May 20, 2003

The Age (Australia)

One of cinema's earliest and best portraits of drug addiction.

February 19, 2013

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Radio Times

Despite the grim subject matter, there are glimpses of Wilder's characteristic mordant wit, and the director's location work in New York's Third Avenue district is exemplary. Casting the hitherto bland Milland was a stroke of genius.

January 13, 2014

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The Nation

While you watch it, it entirely holds you.

September 14, 2012

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Total Film

Taken as a treatise on addiction generally, it's remarkably sensitive and thoughtful.

February 19, 2013

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Time Out

What makes the film so gripping is the brilliance with which Wilder uses John F Seitz's camerawork to range from an unvarnished portrait of New York brutally stripped of all glamour.

February 09, 2006

New York Daily News

Under Wilder's imaginative direction, Milland has been able to convey just what an uncontrollable craving for liquor does to a man's mind, his body and soul.

February 23, 2012

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Variety

It is intense, morbid -- and thrilling. Here is an intelligent dissection of one of society's most rampant evils.

February 20, 2008

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Chicago Reader

Today it's less impressive but not without its virtues.

December 12, 2006

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