The Lost Weekend poster
Screenplay Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett
Director Billy Wilder

The Lost Weekend

Drama1945

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

Release Date: 1945-11-29

Duration: 101 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Frank Faylen
    'Bim' Nolan
  • Amzie Strickland
    Woman in Bar (uncredited)
  • Ray Milland
    Don Birnam
  • Jane Wyman
    Helen St. James
  • Earle Hyman
    Smoking Man (uncredited)
  • James Millican
    Nurse (uncredited)
  • Max Wagner
    Mike (uncredited)
  • Jack Rube Clifford
    Guard (uncredited)
  • Lilian Fontaine
    Mrs. Charles St. James
  • Stanley Price
    Fruit Clerk (uncredited)