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I'm a big fan of "The Lost Weekend." A very pre-code feel to the movie as it showed a very real problem in all its gritty ugliness and pathos. Ray Milland owns the role and does everything from "cheery, I'm fine," to "obsessive despair" with incredible believability. And the music is hauntingly, depressingly appropriate - nails the mood (but as you said, not an uplifting lilt).
This is also one of the movies where the man marries (or appears will marry) the wrong woman. Instead of marrying goody, goody Jane Wyman - who you know, one day, will judge him and blame him for bringing her down - he should have married Doris Dowling, a hooker who truly loved Milland - flaws and all. I bet together they could have helped each other out of their problems, would have respected each other in a glass-houses sort of way and they simply had better chemistry than Milland had with Wyman.
This is also one of the movies where the man marries (or appears will marry) the wrong woman. Instead of marrying goody, goody Jane Wyman - who you know, one day, will judge him and blame him for bringing her down - he should have married Doris Dowling, a hooker who truly loved Milland - flaws and all. I bet together they could have helped each other out of their problems, would have respected each other in a glass-houses sort of way and they simply had better chemistry than Milland had with Wyman.