John Brahm - Hangover Square

Hangover Square
John Brahm (1945)

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1945, 77MINS, US

Dir: John Brahm

Prod: Robert Bassler

Scr: Barre Lyndon

Ph: Joseph La Shelle

Ed: Harry Reynolds

Mus: Bernard Hermann

Art Dir: Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford

CAST:

Laird Cregar

Linda Darnell

George Sanders

Glenn Langan

Faye Marlowe

Alan Napier

(20th Century-Fox)

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Hangover Square is eerie murder melodrama of the London gaslight era - typical of Patrick Hamilton yarns, of which this is another. And it doesn't make any pretence at mystery. The madman-murderer is known from the first reel.

It is the story of a distinguished young composer-pianist with a Jekyll-Hyde personality. When he becomes over-wrought, he's a madman - and his lustful forages are always accompanied by a loss of memory for the periods during which he is murder-bent (very handy for the sustainment of the plot!).

Laird Cregar as the madman-murderer shows markedly the physical decline, through dieting, said to have been a factor in the (actor's) death. Linda Darnell and George Sanders are co-stars, the former as the two-timing girl and Sanders as a Scotland Yard psychiatrist who provides the tell-tale clues responsible for the denouement.

Production is grade A, and so is the direction by John Brahm, with particular bows to the music score by Bernard Herrmann.

3 STARS OUT OF 5

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