The Lost Weekend (1945)
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Title: The Lost Weekend
Original Title: The Lost Weekend
Release Date: 1945-11-29
Status: Released
Rating: 7.6/10 (from 602 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Paramount Pictures
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.
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
