💕💋💕

"Made of the Future" by Al Feldstein

Poison Idea // Painkiller

The Lost Weekend premiered in Los Angeles, CA on 29 November 1945.

Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder adapted Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel for the screen (Wilder says he was attracted to the story of an alcoholic writer while working with Raymond Chandler on Double Indemnity).

After a poor test screening where the audience laughed at Ray Milland's performance (a temporary music track was used for the screening, which was an inappropriate upbeat jazz score), the studio considered not releasing the film (a subsequent screening, with Miklós Rózsa's score was received more favorably).

The liquor industry tried to persuade moviegoers to not support the film, arguing that it was propaganda designed to reinstate Prohibition.

Out there in that great big concrete jungle, I wonder how many others there are like me? Poor bedeviled guys on fire with thirst. Such comical figures, to the rest of the world, as they stagger blindly towards another binge, another bender, another spree.