Billy Wilder, Director; Charles R. Jackson, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, Writers

Le Poison [The Lost Weekend]

Hollywood and Paris: Paramount Pictures/ Grissin, Bedos & Cie Imp. 1945. Softcover. Large 62" x 45" four color linen-backed poster in exceptional condition but for a small half-penny-sized chip and some very light fold marks. The landmark poster for the France release of Billy Wilder's breakthrough film The Lost Weekend made by poster artist Grissin, Bedos & Cie Imp., Paris. Launched at the very first Cannes Film Festival in September, 1946, The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R. Jackson's 1944 novel of the same name about an alcoholic writer. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also shared the Grand Prix at the first Cannes Film Festival, making it one of only three films, the other two being Marty [1955] and Parasite [2019], to win both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the highest award at Cannes. Wilder's unflinchingly honest look at the effects of alcoholism remains a powerful and remarkably prescient film. In 2011, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Very Good to Near Fine, rolled. Item #525235

Price: $450.00