The whole thing is short on imaginative resonance; what it has is the Brackett-and-Wilder specialty -- a distinctive cruel (and sometimes cruelly funny) edge.

The Lost Week End is magnificent melodrama, a serious study into a disease which too often is delineated in ridiculous guise, and an absorbing attempt to show the misery of drink.

If Ray Milland doesn't get the Academy Award for his work in The Lost Week-end it will be a miscarriage of justice.

More than 70 years after its initial release, the movie still mesmerises the audience with its performances, painting probably the most heartfelt and realistic picture of someone battling an alcohol addiction.