The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend
Release: 1945-11-29
·Runtime: 101m
·★ 7.6
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Ray Milland
as Don Birnam
Jane Wyman
as Helen St. James
Phillip Terry
as Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva
as Nat the Bartender
Doris Dowling
as Gloria
Frank Faylen
as 'Bim' Nolan
Mary Young
as Mrs. Deveridge
Anita Sharp-Bolster
as Mrs. Foley
Lilian Fontaine
as Mrs. Charles St. James
Frank Orth
as Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Lewis L. Russell
as Charles St. James
Walter Baldwin
as Man from Albany (uncredited)
Harry Barris
as Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Jack Rube Clifford
as Guard (uncredited)
David Clyde
as Dave (uncredited)
John Deauville
as Cloakroom Attendant (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
as Concert Attendee (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
as Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Jayne Hazard
as M. (uncredited)
Ted Hecht
as Man with Bandaged Ear (uncredited)
Ernest Hilliard
as Headwaiter (uncredited)
Earle Hyman
as Smoking Man (uncredited)
Jack W. Johnston
as Nightclub Guest (uncredited)
Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky
as Baby (uncredited)
Eddie Laughton
as Mr. Brophy (uncredited)
Bertram Marburgh
as Jewish Man (uncredited)
James Millican
as Nurse (uncredited)
Frank Mills
as Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
William Newell
as Liquor Store Proprietor (uncredited)
Stanley Price
as Fruit Clerk (uncredited)
Craig Reynolds
as George (uncredited)
Lester Sharpe
as Jewish Man (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
as Guard (uncredited)
Douglas Spencer
as Hospital Patient Seeing Imaginary Beetles (uncredited)
Amzie Strickland
as Woman in Bar (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
as Drunk in Alcoholic Ward (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
as Washroom Attendant at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
as Doctor (uncredited)
Crane Whitley
as Waiter at Harry & Joe's Bar (uncredited)
Ernest Whitman
as Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
as Drunk (uncredited)
Audrey Young
as Cloak Room Attendant (uncredited)
