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Aside from a somewhat hopeful ending that's not in the same key as the rest of the film, The Lost Weekend is one of the rare uncompromising "social-problem" films of the 1940s. It was a big hit, though Paramount had been reluctant to back it, thinking it uncommercial and likely to draw protests from the liquor industry. In the decade and a half since the repeal of Prohibition, alcoholics had generally been treated on film as comic lushes and mild eccentrics like James Stewart's Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey. Ray Milland's performance and the Charles Brackett-Billy Wilder screenplay, directed by Wilder, give the story power and intensity.
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