The Lost Weekend (1945)
Released | 1945-11-29 | Drama | 101m | 7.7/10
Billy Wilder (Director) | John F. Seitz (Director of Photography) | Charles C. Coleman (Assistant Director) | Charles Brackett (Producer) | Fred True (Grip) | Joel Moss (Sound Recordist) | Edith Head (Costume Design) | Leo Shuken (Orchestrator) | Hans Dreier (Art Direction) | Jack Colconda (Props) | Sidney Cutner (Orchestrator) | Doane Harrison (Editorial Manager) | Gene Lauritzen (Construction Coordinator) | Harlow Stengel (Assistant Camera) | Miklós Rózsa (Original Music Composer) | Stanley Cooley (Sound Recordist) | Wally Westmore (Makeup Artist) | A. Earl Hedrick (Art Direction) | Farciot Edouart (Visual Effects) | Frank Parmenter (Production Manager) | Gordon Jennings (Visual Effects) | Richard Blaydon (Production Manager) | Bertram C. Granger (Set Decoration) | Charles R. Jackson (Novel) |
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.
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) | Lillian Fontaine (Mrs. Charles St. James) | Frank Orth (Opera Cloak Room Attendant) | Lewis L. Russell (Charles St. James) | Andy Andrews (Alcoholic (uncredited)) | Walter Baldwin (Man from Albany (uncredited)) | Harry Barris (Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)) | Jess Lee Brooks ((uncredited)) | Jack Rube Clifford (Guard (uncredited)) | David Clyde (Dave (uncredited)) | James Conaty (Man in Nightclub Washroom (uncredited)) | Willa Pearl Curtis (Mrs. Wertheim's Assistant (uncredited)) | John Deauville (Cloakroom Attendant (uncredited)) | Helen Dickson (Mrs. Frink (uncredited)) | Franklyn Farnum (Concert Attendee (uncredited)) | Byron Foulger (Shopkeeper (uncredited)) | Jayne Hazard (M. (uncredited)) | Ted Hecht (Man with Bandaged Ear (uncredited)) | Ernest Hilliard (Headwaiter (uncredited)) | Earle Hyman (Smoking Man (uncredited)) | Jerry James (Male Nurse (uncredited)) | Stan Johnson (Nurse (uncredited)) | Jack W. Johnston (Nightclub Guest (uncredited)) | Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky (Baby (uncredited)) | Eddie Laughton (Mr. Brophy (uncredited)) | Perc Launders (Doorman (uncredited)) | Audrey Long (Cloak Room Attendant (uncredited)) | Bertram Marburgh (Jewish Man (uncredited)) | William Meader (Hardware Man (uncredited)) | James Millican (Nurse (uncredited)) | Frank Mills (Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)) | Pat Moriarity (Irishman (uncredited)) | William Newell (Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)) | William O'Leary (Irishman (uncredited)) | Peter Potter (Shaky and Sweaty Man (uncredited)) | Stanley Price (Fruit Clerk (uncredited)) | Craig Reynolds (George (uncredited)) | Lester Sharpe (Jewish Man (uncredited)) | Lee Shumway (Guard (uncredited)) | Douglas Spencer (Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)) | Al Stewart (Mattress Man (uncredited)) | Amzie Strickland (Woman in Bar (uncredited)) | Harry Tenbrook (Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)) | Fred 'Snowflake' Toones (Washroom Attendant at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)) | Emmett Vogan (Doctor (uncredited)) | Max Wagner (Mike (uncredited)) | Milton Wallace (Pawnbroker with Helen's Coat (uncredited)) | Gisela Werbisek (Mrs. Wertheim (uncredited)) | Crane Whitley (Waiter at Harry & Joe's Bar (uncredited)) | Ernest Whitman (Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)) | Harry Wilson (Drunk (uncredited)) | Isabel Withers (Woman Before Pawn Shop (uncredited)) |
