The Lost Weekend

Newsman here, Douglas Spencer, was never a movie star, but he was in some big movies.

Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Father of the Bride, A Place in the Sun, and

Shane.

We've reviewed all those.

Uh, but, uh, On the Waterfront, for me, I think works at three.

Just slightly more enjoyable film to The Lost Weekend.

I do love The Lost Weekend.

I think it's an incredible film.

Great leading performance.

A big episode for Mutiny on the Bounty.

The most we've talked about it since the 1930s, but... uh it had a good run in the top 10 i can agree with you on that uh and you are definitely higher than i am on on the waterfront i actually thought we'd be more closely aligned than uh we ended up being i thought my assumption was you were going to have it at number four and i was going to have it at number five so just slightly off but i do have it here at number five so you had it right above the last weekend I have it directly below it.

I have The Lost Weekend at number four, and then On the Waterfront slotted in at number five, but it's a real toss-up between the two.

Yeah, Dublin Demety, also a classic.

What about you? Well, I'd like to fly the flag for The Lost Weekend, which I know is probably not typical, but is a really brilliant film about alcoholism.

Also, because of the age I am, I remember seeing Irma LaDuce on television.

Oh, good

But if you're going to talk about it, you've got to be honest and you've got to never bore anyone.

What was the first film he made that really broke through and got him noticed? I

think it would have to be The Lost Weekend, quite atypical for a Billy Wilder film now because it was a serious drama about alcoholism.

And this was, as a director, his real breakthrough because it won the Palme d'Or, it won Academy Awards.

And then there was a time in the 40s and 50s where rye got a bad reputation as being a kind of whiskey that was kind of bottom shelf and, you know, drunk by alcoholics.

There was this film called The Lost Weekend, which did a lot to harm the reputation of rye.

So that by the time you got to the end of the 20th century, there were maybe three rise on the market.

A lot of the reason why it came back was because of the cocktail revival.

And it does feel like it's two very different filmmakers.

Like, The Lost Weekend, Stalag 17, Sunset Boulevard, Double Edemity does not really feel like the same guy that made Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, The Fortune Cookie.

It does feel like there's two guys here.

Yeah, yeah, I definitely...

Billy Wilder won the Academy Award for Best Director twice, once for the 1960 rom-com, The Apartment, and also for which earlier film?

The Lost Weekend.

A film noir starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman In the interrogation scene in Wilder's 1961 film, One, Two, Three, Otto Piffl is forced to listen to what song repeatedly?

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.

Yep.

So that was, those, that was his early screenwriting and filmmaking partner, 'cause they would go on to make, like, "Lost Weekend," which won-

Yo, yeah

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