The Lost Weekend (1945)

Note Générale:

8,2/10   

Réalisateur:

Billy Wilder

Scénaristes:

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

Date de sortie:

3 septembre 1946 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drame | Romance

Accroche:

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

Intrigue:

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

Plot Keywords:

Alcoholic | Weekend | Drinking | Writer | Drink

Récompenses:

Won 4 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 3 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

Sad end to the life of author Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend)

Ensemble

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

Durée:

101 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Rapport de forme:

1,37 : 1

Son:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Classification:

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

Lieux de tournage:

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

Société:

Paramount Pictures

Anecdotes:

During Don Birnam's flashback to the opera, the piece that is being sung on stage is the "Drinking Song" from La Traviata.

Goofs:

Révélant des erreurs: 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.

Guillemet:

Don Birnam: Let me have one, Nat. I'm dying. Just one.

Connexions:

Référencé sur "Backstory: The Seven Year Itch" (2000)

Bande son:

LOUISE

Sad end to the life of author Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend)

In 1968, I was just 22 years old and driving a taxi part-time in Ft. Lee, New Jersey. One day, I drove Charles Jackson (author of "The Lost Weekend") from Englewood Cliffs, NJ to a run-down hotel in Times Square, New York City. I had seen and really liked the movie of the same name, starring Ray Milland, who did a wonderful job portraying an alcoholic on a weekend binge. The film was so realistic, I had a strong feeling that Charles Jackson had written the book based on his own life. I got up the nerve to ask him, and he told me that....yes, he indeed was the alcoholic portrayed in his book. We talked quite a bit about his life on the way into Times Square. He seemed like a very nice person, although he seemed quite depressed. However, it still came as quite a shock when, shortly after having him in my cab, I read in the papers that he had hung himself in his hotel room in NYC. That's an experience I will never forget!