Do you know what I'm going to call my novel? The Bottle...that's all. Very simply, The Bottle. I've got it all here in my mind. Let me tell you the first chapter.

— Don Birnam (Ray Milland)

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11 seconds sound clip from the The Lost Weekend (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:29:37.221 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Give me a drink!

- That's an awful high class young lady.

- You bet she is.

- How the heck did she ever get mixed up with a guy who sops it up like you do?

- That's the problem, isn't it. That nice young man who drinks, and the high-class young lady, and how did she ever get mixed up with him... and why does he drink and why doesn't he stop?

- That's my novel, Nat. I wanted to start writing it out in the country. Morbid stuff. Nothing for the Book-of-the-Month Club. A horror story. The confessions of a booze addict, the log book of an alcoholic.

- Oh, come on, Nat, break down, will ya?

- Do you know what I'm going to call my novel? The Bottle...that's all. Very simply, The Bottle. I've got it all here in my mind. Let me tell you the first chapter.

- It all starts one wet afternoon about three years ago. There was a matinee of La Traviata at the Metropolitan.

- Libiamo, libiamo ne' lieti calici che la bellezza infiora. E la fuggevol fuggevol'ora s'inebrii a voluttà.

- Libiam ne' dolci fremiti che suscita l'amore. Poiché quell'occhio al core onnipotente va.

- Libiamo, amore, amor fra I calici più caldi baci avrà.

- Tra voi, tra voi saprò dividere il tempo mio giocondo.

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Two bottles of rye. -What brand? -You know what brand, Mr. Brophy. The cheapest. None of that twelve year old, aged-in-the-wood chichi. Not for me. Liquor is all one, anyway.

Or it maybe Sunday. That's the worst. No liquor stores at all. And you guys wouldn't open a bar, not until one o'clock. Why? Why, Nat? -Because we gotta go to church once in a while. That's why. -Yeah, when a guy needs it most.

See that guy over there? With him it's beetles. Come the night, he sees beetles crawling all over him. Has to be dark, though.

Come on. I need that liquor, I want it, I'm going to get it, understand. I'm going to walk out of here with that quart of rye, one way or another.

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Actors: Ray Milland (Don Birnam), Jane Wyman (Helen St. James), Doris Dowling (Gloria), Howard da Silva (Nat)

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