The Lost Weekend (1945)

Directors

Billy Wilder

Cast

Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Lillian Fontaine, Frank Orth, Lewis L. Russell

The story

On Thursday, alcoholic New York writer Don Birnam is packing for a weekend vacation with his brother Wick. Although they are leaving mid-afternoon, when Don's girlfriend Helen drops by and mentions that she is attending a concert that afternoon, Don suggests that Wick goes with her and the brothers can then catch a later train. His motive is self-serving: he has a bottle hidden outside the window and intends to sneak it into his suitcase.

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