The Lost Weekend

scene from the 1945 movie where Ray Milland gets the DT's and freaks out.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• lost
• weekend
• 1945
• ray
• milland
• don
• birnam
• booze
• drunk
• alcoholic
• jane
• wyman

[GeorgiaBrown1]

Absolutely one of the best movies about alcoholism. I remember as a child waking up in the middle of the night and seeing this scene. Scared me!. I was afraid to go back to bed

[smithdsmit]

Ive had withdraws.I never hallucinated but I would be sick for 3 days.Sweating, shaking,Throwing up,Diarrea.Not able to eat or sleep.By the 4th day things start getting better.Iv'e been sober 9 yrs come December.It was rough going but I'm glad to be over that sickness.The withdraws were horendous.For yrs i drank and could stop when i wanted. Then around 30 I started getting withdraws.I actually thought it was the flue the first couple times it Happened

[barney5635]

@MentalScottishCunt The DT's I suffered with for years, lying awake at night, seeing things that weren't there, hearing voices in my head, sweating & shaking, heart racing, stomach churning. Hell on earth all right! I also took seizures after boozing which is the closest I wanna get to death til it's my natural time to go. Thankfully all behind me now, but I still hold on to the memory of where drink took me as a warning to myself.

[barney5635]

@smithdsmit Best thing that's happened to me in years was stopping drinking & staying stopped. Like you said, it was rough going in the early days but it get's easier. I'd been getting withdrawal symptoms since I was 20-21 & I hadn't a clue what was wrong with me. All of what you described happened to me - the nausea, insomnia, the shakes & the sweats. Just basic fear gripped me after bouts of drinking. But I drank on for years after, taking seizures & finally stopped for good when I was 34.

[madrodmckent]

lets all be sober and happy! :) from a head full of pressure rests the senses that i clutch.  so fuck needles fuck smoke fuck lines that make the sinus choke. fuck chasers, trails, waves and rails fuck hangovers. fuck hallucinations. Build a tolerance and the more u will consume and find yourself in a pool full of drool on God's bathroom floor

[marilia956]

great, i remember when the movie scared , 10 years old,,

Ray Milland was very intense in this movie

[tenten6134]

Ray Milland is one of my Favorite Actors I finally just got his autobiography in the mail yesterday! I've been dying to see this movie, thanks for uploading this :)

[TheJomogogo]

@RA59

Me too ! I was 8, saw this on TV 50 years ago, and this scene stuck with me. Thjis movie deserves to be posted, I saw it recently and it has aged well, still riveting, very tight writing, well paced, dealing with an all too common problem.Easily Milland's best film.

[SPENIXXX14]

The best

[RA59]

I first saw this movie more than 40 years ago and the scene with the bat is the one that stuck with me. It scared the Hell out of me.

It might not seem like it now, but in its day (1945) this was a groundbreaking movie.

[JohnnyWankerHead]

does anyone know where i can watch this full film ?