The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking bestseller!
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
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- Suicide or self-harm
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Earnest, grave, overwhelming and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
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Cast
- Ray MillandDon Birnam
- Jane WymanHelen St. James
- Phillip TerryWick Birnam
- Howard Da SilvaNat the Bartender
- Doris DowlingGloria
- Frank Faylen'Bim' Nolan
- Mary YoungMrs. Deveridge
- Anita Sharp-BolsterMrs. Foley
- Lilian FontaineMrs. Charles St. James
- Frank OrthOpera Cloak Room Attendant
Crew
- Billy WilderDirector
- Charles BrackettScreenplay
- Billy WilderScreenplay
- Charles R. JacksonNovel
- John F. SeitzDirector of Photography
- Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
- Doane HarrisonEditor
- Charles BrackettProducer
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