May 24th  
The Lost Weekend***  
(US 1945)     
Paramount. 99m. bw

An alcoholic writer fives up almost everything one lonely weekend in his New York apartment to feed his addiction.                       
Horribly dated now (especially in its overuse of music) with an unconvincing optimistic ending, but for its time this is a vivid study of alcoholism (still a relevant problem at the time after Prohibition), with some nightmarish sequences, and a greater than usual visual approach taken by this director.

Written by: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, from the novel by Charles R. Jackson.
Producer: Charles Brackett.
Director: Billy Wilder.
Starring: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Philip Terry, Howard da Silva, Frank Faylen, Mary Young.
Photography: John F. Seitz.
Music: Miklos Rozsa.

+ Wilder's motivation for making the film was as a testimony to his troubled relationship working with the alcoholic Raymond Chandler during the making of Double Indemnity