Top cast:Blanche Sweet,Wilfred Lucas,Charles West
Director:William V. Mong
Genre:News
Region:Finland
Year:2002
Storyline:George: Well, I never thought of it just that way before, but I guess hat""s about the size of it.And I lost no time either.It started with a very funny incident about sixty years ago...Through Cohan himself, the film commences to tell the story, in voice-over flashback (in a sequence of ""plays-within-a-play""), of the life of the Cohan family.[The entire outdoor set was from the filmWestworld (1973).]This was Brooks"" secondmajorfilm - his debut film wasThe Producers (1968).Gig Young was originally cast in the role as The Waco Kid, and Dan Dailey was once considered.The role of the sheriff was originally designed for Richard Pryor (one of the film""s screenwriters), but he was considered too controversial at the time.Actually, James Dean also had difficult problems with his father, so the film was persuasively autobiographical in many ways.BackgroundThe Lost Weekend(1945) is a serious, painful and uncompromising, frank look at alcohol addiction that follows almost five days (""one lost weekend"") in the life of a chronic, tortured alcoholic, and failed writer.While waiting for Ann to reappear, Driscoll confronts Denham and asks what lies ahead: "When do we find out where we""re going?.