The lost weekend
By: a Paramount Picture ; screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder ; produced by Charles Brackett ; directed by Billy Wilder
Contributors: Milland, Ray, actor; Wyman, Jane, 1917-2007, actor; Terry, Phillip, 1909-1993, actor; Da Silva, Howard, 1909-1986, actor; Dowling, Doris, 1921-2004, actor; Faylen, Frank, 1905-1985, actor; Young, Mary, 1880-1971, actor; Fontaine, Lilian, actor; Orth, Frank, 1880-1962, actor; Bolster, Anita, 1895-1985, actor; Russell, Lewis L., 1889-1961, actor; Seitz, John F. (John Francis), 1892-1979, cinematographer; Harrison, Doane, 1894-1968, editor of a moving image work; Rózsa, Miklós, 1907-1995, composer; Paramount Pictures, Inc; Universal City Studios
Series: Award winners; Award winners (Universal City Studios)
Published: 2000
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Alcoholismo; Man-woman relationships; Feature films; Teatro; Drama; Alcoholics; Authors; Autores; Alcohólicos; Film adaptations; Alcoholism
Work titles: Lost weekend (Motion picture)
Description: A would-be writer's dissatisfaction with his life leads him on a three-day binge. This film gives an uncompromising look at the devastating effects of alcoholism.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1945.

Based on the novel by Charles Jackson.

Special features include: Theatrical trailer ; production notes on the making of the film ; cast & filmmakers biographies ; film highlights.

ML: Restricted to home use or face to face teaching.

Director of photography, John F. Seitz ; editing, Doane Harrison ; music, Miklos Rozsa.

Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Mary Young, Anita Bolster, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth, Lewis L. Russell.

Not rated by MPAA.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; 5.1 Dolby Digital; single layer.

English; with optional subtitles in Spanish and French; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Academy Award winner, 1945: Best Picture (Paramount) ; Best actor.or (Ray Milland) ; Best Director (Billy Wilder) ; Best Writing, Screenplay (Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder)

National Film Registry entrant, 2011.
Table of contents: title: Theatrical trailer; title: Production notes on the making of the film; title: Cast and filmmakers biographies.