Movie Review The Lost Weekend

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1945 – Spoiler alerts A classic study of alcoholism, starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. Milland plays a New York writer with a serious drink problem. He hides whisky round the house, steals money, pawns everything he can to buy more gut rot hooch and lies to everyone around him. Though his brother gives up on him, his girlfriend stands by him. Milland’s performance as a man on the edge is stunning (a worthy Oscar winner), and his encounters with the DT’s are genuinely scary. A tense film and a great cautionary warning of the dark places booze can take us if we lose control. As powerful now as when it was made over seventy years ago. Arthur Chappell