The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
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.
Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Producer: Charles Brackett
Director of Photography: John F. Seitz
Director: Billy Wilder
Don Birnam
Helen St. James
Wick Birnam
Nat the Bartender
Gloria
'Bim' Nolan
Mrs. Deveridge
Mrs. Foley
The Lost Weekend (1945) ORIGINAL TRAILER