The Lost Weekend (1945)

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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.

Directed by: Billy Wilder

Written by: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Charles R. Jackson

Music by: Miklós Rózsa

Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth

Genre: Drama

Released: 1945-11-29

Runtime: 101 minutes

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