The Lost Weekend 1945 Watch Free in HD

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst… but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Genre:

Drama

Actors:

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

Director:

Billy Wilder

Country:

United States

Release:

1945

IMDb:

7.9

Quality:

Duration:

101 min

Variety

It is intense, morbid -- and thrilling. Here is an intelligent dissection of one of society's most rampant evils.

February 20, 2008

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Total Film

Taken as a treatise on addiction generally, it's remarkably sensitive and thoughtful.

February 19, 2013

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CinePassion

Dry alkies and wet teetotalers perpetually out of balance, startlingly laid out by Wilder as a lonely metropolis' quivering nervous system

March 13, 2016

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TIME Magazine

Director Billy Wilder's technique of photographing Third Avenue in the grey morning sunlight with a concealed camera to keep the crowds from being self-conscious gives this sequence the shock of reality.

February 17, 2009

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Observer (UK)

Although ultimately less bleak than Charles Jackson's autobiographical novel, the film is uncompromising in its depiction of the lies, self-deception and degradation that alcoholism leads to.

February 19, 2013

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New York Times

A shatteringly realistic and morbidly fascinating film.

May 20, 2003

The Age (Australia)

One of cinema's earliest and best portraits of drug addiction.

February 19, 2013

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Chicago Reader

Today it's less impressive but not without its virtues.

December 12, 2006

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Time Out

What makes the film so gripping is the brilliance with which Wilder uses John F Seitz's camerawork to range from an unvarnished portrait of New York brutally stripped of all glamour.

February 09, 2006

The Nation

While you watch it, it entirely holds you.

September 14, 2012

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Radio Times

Despite the grim subject matter, there are glimpses of Wilder's characteristic mordant wit, and the director's location work in New York's Third Avenue district is exemplary. Casting the hitherto bland Milland was a stroke of genius.

January 13, 2014

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New York Daily News

Under Wilder's imaginative direction, Milland has been able to convey just what an uncontrollable craving for liquor does to a man's mind, his body and soul.

February 23, 2012

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