Lost Weekend, The (1945) - (Movie Promo) The Essentials, 2017

Lost Weekend, The - (Original Trailer)

Academy Awards® for Best Picture, Actor, Director and Screenplay went to this groundbreaking study of alcoholism.

Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Why This Emphasis On Liquids?

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) Two Bottles Of Rye

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

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.

Lost Weekend, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Vicious Circles

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) Somebody Stole A Purse

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.