Fresh
Under Wilder's imaginative direction, Milland has been able to convey just what an uncontrollable craving for liquor does to a man's mind, his body and soul.
Kate Cameron, New York Daily News
The Lost Weekend
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
1945 · 1h 41m · Approved
Drama
Directed by
Billy Wilder
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The Lost Weekend
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Ray Milland as Don Birnam
- Jane Wyman as Helen St. James
- Phillip Terry as Wick Birnam
- Howard Da Silva as Nat the Bartender
- Doris Dowling as Gloria
- Frank Faylen as 'Bim' Nolan
- Mary Young as Mrs. Deveridge
- Anita Sharp-Bolster as Mrs. Foley
- Lilian Fontaine as Mrs. Charles St. James
- Frank Orth as Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It is intense, morbid -- and thrilling. Here is an intelligent dissection of one of society's most rampant evils.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Today it's less impressive but not without its virtues.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
What makes the film so gripping is the brilliance with which Wilder uses John F Seitz's camerawork to range from an unvarnished portrait of New York brutally stripped of all glamour.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
A shatteringly realistic and morbidly fascinating film.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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