The Lost Weekend
623 reviews
Drama
1h 41m
1945
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, 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...
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Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, 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.
- DirectorBilly Wilder
- Release29 November 1945
- GenreDrama
- Duration1h 41m
- Budget$1,250,000
- Revenue$11,000,000
- Rate623 reviews
- Productions
Paramount Pictures
Cast

Ray Milland
Don Birnam

Jane Wyman
Helen St. James

Phillip Terry
Wick Birnam

Howard Da Silva
Nat the Bartender

Doris Dowling
Gloria

Frank Faylen
'Bim' Nolan

Mary Young
Mrs. Deveridge

Anita Sharp-Bolster
Mrs. Foley

Lilian Fontaine
Mrs. Charles St. James

Frank Orth
Opera Cloak Room Attendant

Lewis L. Russell
Charles St. James

Walter Baldwin
Man from Albany (uncredited)

Harry Barris
Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)

Jack Rube Clifford
Guard (uncredited)

David Clyde
Dave (uncredited)

John Deauville
Cloakroom Attendant (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum
Concert Attendee (uncredited)

Byron Foulger
Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Jayne Hazard
M. (uncredited)

Ted Hecht
Man with Bandaged Ear (uncredited)

Ernest Hilliard
Headwaiter (uncredited)

Earle Hyman
Smoking Man (uncredited)

Jack W. Johnston
Nightclub Guest (uncredited)

Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky
Baby (uncredited)

Bertram Marburgh
Jewish Man (uncredited)

James Millican
Nurse (uncredited)

Frank Mills
Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)

William Newell
Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)

Stanley Price
Fruit Clerk (uncredited)

Craig Reynolds
George (uncredited)

Lester Sharpe
Jewish Man (uncredited)

Lee Shumway
Guard (uncredited)

Douglas Spencer
Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)

Amzie Strickland
Woman in Bar (uncredited)

Harry Tenbrook
Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Washroom Attendant at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)

Emmett Vogan
Doctor (uncredited)

Crane Whitley
Waiter at Harry & Joe's Bar (uncredited)

Ernest Whitman
Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)

Harry Wilson
Drunk (uncredited)

Audrey Young
Cloak Room Attendant (uncredited)
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