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Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other. Written by
Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
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Release Date:
January 1946 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Días sin huella
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Box Office
Budget:
$1,250,000
(estimated)
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Runtime:
Sound Mix:
Mono
(Western Electric Recording)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Trivia
On March 10, 1946 - three days after winning the Academy Award -
Ray Milland appeared as a guest on a radio broadcast of "The Jack Benny Show." In a spoof of
The Lost Weekend (1945), Ray and
Jack Benny played alcoholic twin brothers.
Phil Harris - who normally played Jack Benny's hard-drinking bandleader on the show - played the brother who tried to convince Ray and Jack to give up liquor. ("Ladies and gentlemen," said an announcer, "the opinions expressed by Mr. Harris are written in the script and are not necessarily his own.") In the alcoholic ward scene, smart-aleck
Frank Nelson played the ward attendant who promised Ray and Jack that they would soon start seeing DT visions of strange animals. When the DT visions appeared (with
Mel Blanc providing pig squeals, monkey chatters, and other animal sound effects), Ray chased them off. "Ray, they're gone!" Benny shouted. "What did you do?" Milland replied, "I threw my Oscar at them!"
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Goofs
Amount of rye in shot glass changes. When bartender Nat pours Don Birnam's first drink, the shot glass is approximately 75% full as seen over bartender's left shoulder. Birnam lifts glass, but does not drink. Cut to camera over Birnam's right shoulder looking at bartender. As Birnam leans away from bar, glass is now filled almost to brim.
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Quotes
Don Birnam:
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. It's so simple. You've gotta catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house, the ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's Pastorale, a letter scribbled on her office stationary that you carry around in your pocket because it smells like all the lilacs in Ohio.
Don Birnam:
Pour it, Nat!
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Connections
Referenced in
M*A*S*H: Your Hit Parade (1978)
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Soundtracks
La Traviata
(1853) (uncredited)
Music by
Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by
Francesco Maria Piave
Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Drinking Song) Performed by
John Garris and
Theodora Lynch with
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