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Title: The Lost Weekend

Release Date: 29 Nov 1945

Runtime: 1h 41m

Genre: Drama

Director: Paramount Pictures

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 7.626 (597 votes)

Cast

  • Don Birnam: Ray Milland
  • Helen St. James: Jane Wyman
  • Wick Birnam: Phillip Terry
  • Nat the Bartender: Howard Da Silva
  • Gloria: Doris Dowling
  • 'Bim' Nolan: Frank Faylen
  • Mrs. Deveridge: Mary Young
  • Mrs. Foley: Anita Sharp-Bolster
  • Mrs. Charles St. James: Lilian Fontaine
  • Opera Cloak Room Attendant: Frank Orth
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