The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend is a 1945 motion picture directed by Billy Wilder for Paramount Pictures, starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Phillip Terry. The film was based on a novel by Charles R. Jackson about a writer who drinks out of a frustration over the accusation that he had an affair with one of his male buddies while in college. It was one of the first to use the theremin, a musical instrument, to create the pathos of the disease of alcoholism.

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The Lost Weekend

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:02:09

You better take this along, Don.
It's going to be cold on the farm.

:02:12

How many shirts are you taking?
- Three.

:02:15

I'm taking five.
- Five?

:02:17

Yeah, I told them at the office I might not be back
until Tuesday. We'll get there this afternoon.

:02:20

That'll give us all Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

:02:23

We'll make it a long wonderful weekend.

:02:26

Sounds long, all right.

:02:27

It'll be good for you Don, after what you've been through.

:02:30

Trees and grass and sweet cider and buttermilk...

:02:32

and water from that well that's colder than any other...

:02:35

Wick, please, why this emphasis on liquids?

:02:37

Very dull liquids.

:02:40

Sorry, Don.

:02:45

You know, I think it'd be a good idea
if we took along my typewriter.

:02:48

What for?

:02:49

To write. I'm gonna write there. Get started on that novel.

:02:53

You really feel up to writing?
- Why not?

:02:56

I mean, after what you've been through.

:02:57

I haven't touched the stuff for ten days now.

:03:01

I know. I know you haven't Don.

:03:03

Where is the typewriter?
- In the living room...

:03:07

in the closet...

:03:12

kinda towards the back.

:03:25

Are you sure it's in the closet? I can't find it.

:03:27

Well look by the desk.

:03:34

Isn't it under your bed?

:03:39

Did you find it?
- Oh sure, sure here it is.

:03:43

And here's some paper.

:03:45

Tell you what we'll do, we'll fix up a table
on the south porch and nobody'll disturb you.

:03:48

And maybe Saturday we can run down to the Country Club.

:03:52

I'm not going near that Country Club.
- Why not?

:03:54

"Because they're a bunch of hypocrites
and I don't like to be whispered about "

:03:57

Look who's here from New York. The Birnam brothers...

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