
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.

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)

Jack Rube Clifford
Guard (uncredited)

David Clyde
Dave (uncredited)
James Conaty
Man in Nightclub Washroom (uncredited)
Willa Pearl Curtis
Mrs. Wertheim's Assistant (uncredited)

John Deauville
Cloakroom Attendant (uncredited)
Billy Wilder
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
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