Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.
- based on novel or book
- alcohol
- brother
- paranoia
- bartender
- addiction
- alcoholism
- flashback
- film noir
- suicidal
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ray Milland
Don Birnam
Jane Wyman
Helen St. James
Phillip Terry
Wick Birnam
Howard Da Silva
Nat the Bartender
- Doris Dowling — Gloria
- Frank Faylen — 'Bim' Nolan
- Mary Young — Mrs. Deveridge
- Anita Sharp-Bolster — Mrs. Foley
- Lilian Fontaine — Mrs. Charles St. James
- Frank Orth — Opera Cloak Room Attendant
- Lewis L. Russell — Charles St. James
- Andy Andrews — Alcoholic (uncredited)
- Walter Baldwin — Man from Albany (uncredited)
- Harry Barris — Pianist at Harry & Joe's (uncredited)
- Jess Lee Brooks — (uncredited)
- Directed
- Billy Wilder
- Written
- Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 675 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
