The Lost Weekend (1945)
Alcohollywood
English - July 17, 2014 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 97 ratingsTV & Film Comedy movies films drinking alcohol comedy funny cult indiana jones games Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week on Alcohollywood, we’re staging an intervention by making a drinking game for a film about alcoholism! Returning guests Andrew and Julia join us to take on Billy Wilder’s 1945 classic The Lost Weekend, about an alcoholic writer (Ray Milland) who endures a rock bottom bender over the course of three days. The film takes an unflinching look at the morality and psychology of alcoholism, a first for a movie of this type. The film is helped along with some creative imagery and Miklos Rozsa’s unsettling theremin score. (It's also a fantastic double feature with Double Indemnity, another Wilder film we've covered on the show before as well.) Take a listen as we share in Don’s dilemmas with our custom cocktail and drinking game!