The Lost Weekend

1945 · 1h40 · Film

Directed by Billy Wilder

Starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth

Ideal when you feel… Sad / low Exhausted

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.

Original language

English

Country

United States

Screenplay

Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder

Music

Miklós Rózsa

Cinematography

John F. Seitz

Cast

Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth

Updated August 14, 2026

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