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The Lost Weekend
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This grim, realistic treatment of alcoholism stars Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a troubled novelist with a drinking problem. Escaping from the apartment his worried brother has confined him to for the weekend, Don makes his way to his favorite tavern, where he knocks back drink after drink.
This grim, realistic treatment of alcoholism stars Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a troubled novelist with a drinking problem. Escaping from the apartment his worried brother has confined him to for the weekend, Don makes his way to his favorite tavern, where he knocks back drink after drink.
Actors:
Douglas Spencer,
Lewis L. Russell,
Fred Snowflake Toones,
Helen Dickson,
Jane Wyman,
Ted Hecht,
James Conaty,
Pat Moriarity,
Jack Rube Clifford,
Dick Gordon,
Bertram Marburgh,
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Douglas Spencer
10 February 1910, Princeton, Illinois, USA
Lewis L. Russell
September 10, 1889 in Farmington, Illinois, USA
Fred Snowflake Toones
5 January 1906, North Carolina, USA
Helen Dickson
July 20, 1885 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
Jane Wyman
5 January 1917, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
Ted Hecht
February 17, 1908 in New York City, New York, USA
James Conaty
December 13, 1895 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Pat Moriarity
January 27, 1896 in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, Ireland
Jack Rube Clifford
December 25, 1888 in Elmira, New York, USA
Dick Gordon
June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bertram Marburgh
May 17, 1875 in New York City, New York, USA
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Billy Wilder
Country:
United States
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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.December 12, 2006
Today it's less impressive but not without its virtues.February 19, 2013
One of cinema's earliest and best portraits of drug addiction.February 20, 2008
It is intense, morbid -- and thrilling. Here is an intelligent dissection of one of society's most rampant evils.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.
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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.