The Lost Weekend (1945)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.2/10   

Director:

Billy Wilder

Escritores:

Charles R. Jackson (novel)
Charles Brackett (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 septiembre 1946 (Sweden)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

How daring can the screen dare to be? No adult man or woman can risk missing the startling frankness of The Lost Weekend!

Plot:

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.

Plot Keywords:

Alcoholic | Weekend | Drinking | Writer | Flashback

Premios:

Won 4 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Feeling thirsty? Then have a cup of tea.

Reparto

Ray Milland	...	Don Birnam
Jane Wyman	...	Helen St. James
Phillip Terry	...	Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva	...	Nat
Doris Dowling	...	Gloria
Frank Faylen	...	'Bim' Nolan
Mary Young	...	Mrs. Deveridge
Anita Sharp-Bolster	...	Mrs. Foley (as Anita Bolster)
Lillian Fontaine	...	Mrs. Charles St. James (as Lilian Fontaine)
Frank Orth	...	Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Lewis L. Russell	...	Charles St. James

También conocida como:

Días sin huella (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

101 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Germany:12 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG | South Korea:15 (2003) | Argentina:16 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bellevue Hospital - 550 First Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

To prepare for the part, Ray Milland spent one night in Bellevue Hospital as a patient. He also stopped eating as much, as most alcoholics forget to do so.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: When Helen pours whiskey for Don near the end then divides it into two glasses, it is nowhere near a quarter of the way up the glass. When Don chooses not to drink it moments later, and drops his cigarette in the glass, it is more than half-way full.

Citas:

Don Birnam: What kind of party did you say that was?
Helen St. James: A cocktail party.
Don Birnam: In that case, I'll join you.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Billy Wilder Speaks (2006) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

LA TRAVIATA

Feeling thirsty? Then have a cup of tea.

Seedy bars, pawnshops, and an array of elaborate hiding places are the overriding images from this film. The Lost Weekend is a grimly realistic account of four days in the life of a chronic alcoholic, played by Ray Milland. In films of this quality one always takes away unforgettable images. The most striking is Milland's drunken efforts to remember where in his apartment the last hiding place he used is. Degraded and thoroughly beaten by his addiction, his last refuge is to try and keep it a secret from those who still love him. Billy Wilder's direction and script is brilliant - sympathetic, but unpatronising in his handling of a delicate and rarely dealt with affliction. Not until Nicolas Cage's portrayal of a man determined to drink himself to death in Leaving Las Vegas, has alcoholism been dealt with so well. Milland's performance is first rate - no hammy shlurring of words - and the atmosphere is dark and seedy like the bars he frequents. The scene where he spends several hours trying to find an open pawnshop on a public holiday is both harrowing and dazzling - it is remeniscent of the filmic image of a parched man trying to cross the desert.