Film, Video Web Page The lost weekend

Title

• The lost weekend

Summary

• Don, an alcoholic, is unable to resist the lure of the bottle as he goes on a self-destructive binge. He uses various strategies to evade the watchful eye of his brother, Wick, and his sweetheart, Helen, in hiding his bottles with animal cunning. They have followed his debauch through a series of epidodes which includes his unblushing importunities of a bartender, begging for drinks; a horribly humiliating encounter when he is caught stealing money from a woman's purse; a racking walk along New York's Third Avenue, trying to pawn a typewriter for some cash; and a staggeringly ugly experience in the Bellevue alcoholic ward where he goes through a bout of delirium tremens.

Names

• Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002.- direction, writing.
• Brackett, Charles, 1892-1969, writing.
• Milland, Ray, cast.
• Wyman, Jane, 1917-2007, cast.
• Terry, Phillip, 1909- cast.
• Jackson, Charles, 1903-1968.
• LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
• Aubinoe (Alvin L., Jr.) Family Film Collection (Library of Congress)
• Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
• AFI/Universal Pictures Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• United States : Paramount Pictures, 1945 ; United States : MCA Home Video, Inc., [1989]

Headings

• -  Alcoholics--Family relationships--Drama
• -  Alcoholics--Rehabilitation--Drama
• -  Alcoholism--Drama
• -  Delirium tremens--Drama

Genre

• Fiction films
• Social problem films
• Film adaptations
• Videodiscs

Notes

• -  LP13636 U.S. Copyright Office
• -  Copyright: Paramount Pictures, Inc.; 10Aug45; LP13636.
• -  Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: MCA Home Video, Inc. ; 1989.
• -  Music score, Miklos Rozsa.
• -  Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen.
• -  Reissue date is copyright date for videodisc package design.
• -  Chapter 1 on disc includes trailer for the feature The lost weekend.
• -  On videodisc jacket: Encore edition.
• -  Part of summary from New York times, 12/3/45.
• -  NCN006215; The lost weekend.
• -  On videodisc jacket: MCA Home Video 21001.
• -  From the novel by Charles Jackson.
• -  Sources used: videodisc jacket and label; Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1940-1949, p. 221; Laser video file spring/summer, 1992, p. 107; M/B/RS preliminary cataloging record.
• -  viewing copy; Received: between 1989-1990; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.
• -  16 mm. viewing print; Received: 1/21/1998; gift; Aubinoe (Alvin L., Jr.) Family Film Collection
• -  16 mm. viewing print; Received: 8/4/66; copyright deposit replacing nitrate original; Copyright Collection.
• -  35 mm. viewing print.; Received: 5/3/79 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Universal Pictures Collection.
• -  dupe neg; Received: 2-3-78 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Universal Pictures Collection.
• -  Videodisc viewed for credits; updated by qu10.

Medium

• viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1 (optical) (ca. 100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in.
• viewing print. 3 film reels of 3 (ca. 100 min., ca. 3,600 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.
• viewing print. 3 film reels of 3 (ca. 98 min., ca. 3,500 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.
• viewing print. 11 film reels of 11 (ca. 100 min., ca. 9,029 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm.
• dupe neg. 11 film reels of 11 (ca. 100 min., ca. 9,029 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• DAA 0858 (viewing copy)
• FCB 5205-5207 (viewing print)
• FCA 2972-2974 (viewing print)
• FEB 1032-1042 (viewing print)
• FPC 2354-2364 (dupe neg)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 96508803

Online Format

• web page
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/96508803

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• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record