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The Lost Weekend
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Writer Don Birnam (Ray Milland) is on the wagon. Sober for only a few days, Don is supposed to be spending the weekend with his brother, Wick (Phillip Terry), but, eager for a drink, Don convinces his girlfriend (Jane Wyman) to take Wick to a show. Don, meanwhile, heads to his local bar and misses the train out of town. After recounting to the bartender (Howard da Silva) how he developed a drinking problem, Don goes on a weekend-long bender that just might prove to be his last.
Writer Don Birnam (Ray Milland) is on the wagon. Sober for only a few days, Don is supposed to be spending the weekend with his brother, Wick (Phillip Terry), but, eager for a drink, Don convinces his girlfriend (Jane Wyman) to take Wick to a show. Don, meanwhile, heads to his local bar and misses the train out of town. After recounting to the bartender (Howard da Silva) how he developed a drinking problem, Don goes on a weekend-long bender that just might prove to be his last.
Actors:
James Conaty,
Franklyn Farnum,
Willa Pearl Curtis,
Sophie,
Karl Karchy Kosiczky,
David Clyde,
Crane Whitley
James Conaty
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Franklyn Farnum
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Willa Pearl Curtis
21 March 1896, Texas, USA
Sophie
Karl Karchy Kosiczky
21 September 1918, Prakfalva, Austria-Hungary [now Prakovce, Slovakia]
David Clyde
27 March 1885, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
Crane Whitley
28 October 1899, New York City, New York, USA
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Billy Wilder
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Billy Wilder #Howard Da Silva #Jane Wyman #Le poison (1945) #Phillip Terry #Ray Milland #The Lost Weekend
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February 19, 2013
Taken as a treatise on addiction generally, it's remarkably sensitive and thoughtful.
January 13, 2014
Despite the grim subject matter, there are glimpses of Wilder's characteristic mordant wit, and the director's location work in New York's Third Avenue district is exemplary. Casting the hitherto bland Milland was a stroke of genius.
February 20, 2008
It is intense, morbid -- and thrilling. Here is an intelligent dissection of one of society's most rampant evils.
September 14, 2012
While you watch it, it entirely holds you.
December 12, 2006
Today it's less impressive but not without its virtues.
March 13, 2016
Dry alkies and wet teetotalers perpetually out of balance, startlingly laid out by Wilder as a lonely metropolis' quivering nervous system
February 23, 2012
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.
February 19, 2013
One of cinema's earliest and best portraits of drug addiction.
Time Out
February 09, 2006
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.
February 19, 2013
Although ultimately less bleak than Charles Jackson's autobiographical novel, the film is uncompromising in its depiction of the lies, self-deception and degradation that alcoholism leads to.
February 17, 2009
Director Billy Wilder's technique of photographing Third Avenue in the grey morning sunlight with a concealed camera to keep the crowds from being self-conscious gives this sequence the shock of reality.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
A shatteringly realistic and morbidly fascinating film.