The Lost Weekend (1945)

Name: The Lost Weekend
Genre: Drama
Released: 1945-11-29
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 7.6

U/A 13+ 29/11/1945

Drama

1 hr 41 min

76%

Status : Released
Budget : $1,250,000
Revenue :$11,000,000

The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!

Overview

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.

Status : Released
Budget : $1,250,000
Revenue :$11,000,000

The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!

Overview

Top Billed 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)

Crew Members

Charles Brackett

Screenplay

Billy Wilder

Screenplay

Charles Brackett

Producer

Miklós Rózsa

Original Music Composer

John F. Seitz

Director of Photography

Edith Head

Costume Design

Wally Westmore

Makeup Artist

Billy Wilder

Director

Sidney Cutner

Orchestrator

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