The Lost Weekend - Wikipedia
The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama film noir directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Lost Weekend (1945) - IMDb
The Lost Weekend: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva. The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder (Dir.), Ray Milland, Jane …
Jun 11, 2022 · The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American FILM NOlR drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer.
The Lost Weekend (1945) - Turner Classic Movies
Based on the novel The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson (New York, 1944). A writer fights to overcome his addiction to liquor.
The Lost Weekend (1945) - Plot - IMDb
Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.
The Lost Weekend (novel) - Wikipedia
The Lost Weekend is Charles R. Jackson's first novel, published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1944. The story of a talented but alcoholic writer was praised for its powerful realism, closely reflecting the author’s own experience of alcoholism, from which he was temporarily cured.
The Lost Weekend - Rotten Tomatoes
Sober for only a few days, Don is supposed to be spending the weekend with his brother, Wick (Phillip Terry), but, eager for a drink, Don convinces his girlfriend (Jane Wyman) to take Wick to...
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‘The Lost Weekend’: THR’s 1945 Review - The Hollywood Reporter
Nov 28, 2023 · On Nov. 29, 1945, Paramount Pictures and Billy Wilder brought their adaptation of The Lost Weekend to theaters in Los Angeles. The film would go on to be nominated for seven...
The Lost Weekend (1945) - Greatest Films
The Lost Weekend (1945) is a serious, painful and uncompromising, frank look at alcohol addiction that follows almost five days ('one lost weekend') in the life of a chronic, tortured alcoholic, and failed writer. The dark-tempered, melodramatic social-problem film was both a critically- and financially-successful endeavor.
Lost Weekend (1945) was a breakthrough novel for author Charles Jackson, who based protagonist Don Birnam’s debilitating dipso-maniacal tendencies on his own personal history.