This highly original, emotionally wrenching picture depicts a man's grueling, weekend-long crawl from drink to drink as he also attempts to write a novel about his own alcoholism. Family, friends and potential lovers endure Don Birnam's binging and lying, and when he winds up hospitalized, his withdrawals are a greater horror than he has yet known. By far the tour-de-force of Ray Milland's acting career, the film rode the cutting edge of attitudes toward the disease of alcoholism.
Paramount Pictures, Inc. Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: Billy Wilder. Screenwriter: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder. Cinematographer: John F. Seitz. Editor: Doane Harrison. Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen. 35mm, b/w, 101 min.
