The Lost Weekend

The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!

Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been 'on the wagon' for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.

Direction

Billy Wilder

Screenplay

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Charles R. Jackson

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Charles Brackett

Billy Wilder