The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

1945 | 1h 41m | Drama | TV-PG

Brief Synopsis

Billy Wilder's Academy Award®-winning portrait of an alcoholic writer on a self-destructive spree that lasts four days and the only person who can help him from drinking to death is his girlfriend, whose love for him is unconditional.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Billy Wilder

CAST

Ray Milland

Jane Wyman

Phillip Terry

Howard Da Silva

Doris Dowling

Frank Faylen

Mary Young

Anita Bolster

Lillian Fontaine

Lewis Russell

PRODUCERS

Charles Brackett

WRITERS

Charles Brackett

Host Intros

01:51
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Lost Weekend (1945)
Intro Aired: Feb 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lost Weekend, 1945.
01:53
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Lost Weekend (1945)
Intro Aired: Jan 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lost Weekend, 1945.
01:37
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Lost Weekend (1945)
Intro Aired: Apr 2016
Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Lost Weekend, 1945.
02:15
Robert Osborne Intro -- The Lost Weekend (1945)
Intro Aired: Jan 2016
Robert Osborne Introduces The Lost Weekend, 1945.

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Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Promo) The Essentials, 2017
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Promo for TCM's The Essentials, this week featuring host Alec Baldwin and guest David Letterman, on The Lost Weekend, 1945, at 8pm ET on Saturday, June 10th.
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David Letterman on The Lost Weekend
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Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Why This Emphasis On Liquids?
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Spectacular New York opening by writer-director Billy Wilder, introducing drying-out alcoholic hero Don (Ray Milland), his brother Wick (Phillip Terry), and briefly girlfriend Helen (Jane Wyman) in The Lost Weekend, 1945.
Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Somebody Stole A Purse
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Excruciating scene from director Billy Wilder, as alcoholic Don (Ray Milland) drinks beyond his budget at a Manhattan night club, Crane Whitney the waiter, Harry Barris on piano, in The Lost Weekend, 1945.
Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Vicious Circles
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New York alcoholic Don (Ray Milland), scheming to keep up appearances, visits with barkeep Nat (Howard Da Silva) and hooker Gloria (Doris Dowling), in a bar modeled on the real P-J Clarke's, in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, 1945.
Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Two Bottles Of Rye
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Drying-out alcoholic Don (Ray Milland) has managed to be left alone, but his booze has already been confiscated, thus he improvises, early in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, 1945.
Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Just Rude I Guess
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In flashback, alcoholic Don (Ray Milland) recalls being at the opera where he first met future girlfriend Helen (Jane Wyman), in The Lost Weekend, 1945, directed by Billy Wilder from a script by Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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Lost Weekend, The - (Original Trailer)
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Academy Awards® for Best Picture, Actor, Director and Screenplay went to this groundbreaking study of alcoholism.

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