“The Lost Weekend” quotes
(1945)
Title The Lost Weekend
Year 1945
Director Billy Wilder
Genre Drama, Film-Noir
Year 1945
Director Billy Wilder
Genre Drama, Film-Noir
Plot – Initially successful, a young writer finds serious difficulties on his path and turns to alcohol to escape his torments. He becomes an alcoholic, and his brother's and his girlfriend's efforts to tear him away from his vice are useless. The wretch has only one concern: to obtain the money he needs to satisfy his unquenchable thirst. He falls into a condition of extreme abjection. Taken to a clinic for alcoholics, he witnesses dismal scenes of delirium tremens and he himself becomes delirious. Desperate, he decides to commit suicide and he is about to do so when his girlfriend's intervention saves him. Love has performed a miracle and, thanks to his love for the heroic creature that has saved him, he finds the strength to resist temptation and to heal.
All 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, , Andy Andrews, Gene Ashley, Walter Baldwin, Harry Barris, Ian Begg, Eddie Borden, Jess Lee Brooks, Jack Rube Clifford, David Clyde, James Conaty, Willa Pearl Curtis, John Deauville, Helen Dickson, Clark Eggleston, Franklyn Farnum, John Garris, Dick Gordon, Jayne Hazard, Ted Hecht, Ernest Hilliard, Earle Hyman, Jerry James, Stan Johnson, Jack W. Johnston, Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky, Eddie Laughton, Perc Launders, Theodora Lynch, Bertram Marburgh, William Meader, James Millican, Frank Mills, Pat Moriarity, William Newell, William O'Leary, Peter Potter, Mark Power, Stanley Price, Craig Reynolds, The San Francisco Opera Company, Lester Sharpe, Lee Shumway, Sophie, Douglas Spencer, Al Stewart, Bunny Sunshine, Harry Tenbrook, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Emmett Vogan, Max Wagner, Milton Wallace, Gisela Werbisek, Crane Whitley, Ernest Whitman, Isabel Withers, Audrey Young
show all“The Lost Weekend” Quotes 15 quotes
“- Helen St. James: There must be a reason why you drink, Don? The right doctor could find it.
- Don Birnam: Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor. I know the reason. The reason is me - what I am. Or, rather, what I'm not. What I wanted to become and didn't.
- Helen St. James: What is it you want to be so much that you're not?
- Don Birnam:...” (continue)(continue reading)“- Don Birnam: One should always see Shakespeare on an empty stomach.
- Gloria: Not even a pretzel?”“- Don Birnam: Do you ever lay in your bed looking at the window? A little daylight's coming through and you start to wonder. Is it getting lighter? Is it getting darker? Is it dawn or is it dusk? That's a terrifying problem, Nat. Because, if its dawn, you're dead! The bars are closed. The liquor stores aren't open until nine o'clock and you...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Don Birnam: What are they playing?
- Helen St. James: Brahms second symphony, something by Beethoven, something by Handel and not one note of Grieg.”“We're both trying, Don. You're trying not to drink, and I'm trying not to love you.”
“- Wick Birnem: Trees and grass and sweet cider, buttermilk and water from that well that's colder than any old...
- Don Birnam: Wait, please! Why this emphasis on liquids? Very dull liquids!”“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation!”
“Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've gotta catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house, the ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's Pastorale, a letter scribbled on her office stationary that you carry around in your...” (continue)(continue reading)
“One's too many an' a hundred's not enough.”
“Don't wipe it away, Nat. Let me have my little vicious circle. You know, the circle is the perfect geometric figure. No end, no beginning.”
“- Gloria: Don't be ridic'.
- Don Birnam: Gloria, please. Why imperil our friendship with these loathsome abbreviations?”
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