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Programme Information

Offered help by his friends to stay off the booze, writer Don spirals into depression and drunkenness, desperately trying to pawn his typewriter for liquor money. Bold for its time, this won four Oscars, including Best Picture.

Keywords:

Drama, Film-Noir, Based-on-Novel, Film Noir, Oscar Best Picture, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Oscar Best Actor

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1945) (USA) (4 Star)

Cast:

Ray Milland	.... Don Birnam
Jane Wyman	.... Helen St. James
Phillip Terry	.... Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva	.... Nat Bartender
Doris Dowling	.... Gloria
Frank Faylen	.... 'Bim' Nolan Male Nurse

Supporting Cast:

Mary Young	.... Mrs. Deveridge Birnam's Landlady
Anita Sharp-Bolster	.... Mrs. Foley Cleaning Lady
Lillian Fontaine	.... Mrs. Charles St. James
Frank Orth	.... Opera Cloak Room Attendant
Lewis L. Russell	.... Charles St. James

Directors:

Billy Wilder

Writers:

Charles R. Jackson
Charles Brackett