The Lost Weekend (Film), released 1945 — adapted from The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson.
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.
Starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling.
Directed by Billy Wilder.
