Hangover Square (1945)

Directed by

John Brahm

Genre

drama film, film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 17m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A talented composer in early 1900s London suffers from blackouts and violent urges tied to his music. He becomes entangled with a manipulative singer who pushes him toward a destructive obsession.

tensedarkmelancholicpsychologically chargedatmosphericbroodingtragicfeverish

What happens

Hangover Square is a 1945 American horror film directed by John Brahm, based on the 1941 novel Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon, who made a number of changes to the novel, including transforming George Harvey Bone into a classical composer-pianist and filming the story as a turn-of-the-20th-century period piece. The film, which stars Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders, was released in New York City on February 7, 1945, two months after Cregar suffered a fatal heart attack. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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