The Lost Weekend

1945 · directed by Billy Wilder

Rating

90/100

Hit

yes

Prestige lists

Oscar Winner

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.

The Lost Weekend (1945), directed by Billy Wilder, rates 90/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Ray Milland
• Jane Wyman
• Phillip Terry
• Howard Da Silva
• Doris Dowling
• Frank Faylen
• Mary Young
• Anita Sharp-Bolster
• Lilian Fontaine
• Frank Orth

Crew

• John F. Seitz — Director of Photography
• Doane Harrison — Editor
• Miklós Rózsa — Original Music Composer
• Billy Wilder — Screenplay
• Charles Brackett — Screenplay

More from Billy Wilder

1. Some Like It Hot (1959) — 99/100 · hit
2. Sunset Boulevard (1950) — 98/100 · hit
3. Double Indemnity (1944) — 98/100 · hit
4. The Apartment (1960) — 97/100 · hit
5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) — 85/100 · hit
6. Five Graves to Cairo (1943) — 83/100 · hit

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