The Lost Weekend(1945)
The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
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.
Movie: The Lost Weekend
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Don Birnam
Helen St. James
Wick Birnam
Nat the Bartender
Gloria
'Bim' Nolan
Mrs. Deveridge
Mrs. Foley
Mrs. Charles St. James
Opera Cloak Room Attendant
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Mark Pellington on THE LOST WEEKEND
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