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Agee, James | December 22, 1945 issue

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In this article, the author comments on the motion picture "The Lost Weekend," produced by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and starring Ray Milland and Frank Faylen. Faylen's performance as a male nurse is fully as right and powerful, so is a shrieking free-for-all in an alcoholic ward, which is fought by an incredibly mistaken use of background music. Actor Ray Milland's performance as the alcoholic Don Birnam is debatable at first, but so absorbed and persuasive as the picture moves along that he all but wins the picture and the doubters over.

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LOST Weekend, The (Film); MOTION pictures; BRACKETT, Charles; WILDER, Billy, 1906-2002; MILLAND, Ray; FAYLEN, Frank
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