The Lost Weekend: The Complete Screenplay

by Frank Faylen, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett

Book Overview

The Lost Weekend swept the 1945 Academy Awards, with nominations for Best Film Editing, Score, and Black and White Cinematography, and Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay. It also received numerous awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globes. Based on the novel by Charles Jackson, a work that many in Hollywood had thought unfilmmable because of its relentless grimness, The Lost Weekend was one of the first films to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520218566
• ISBN13: 9780520218567
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"