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>Dad and I had a lot of fun today, I just love the rare >rainy day to snuggle in and watch something >tasty...anyway, this was Hangover Square, an oddly >named film, with a very tortured, romantic lead, Laird >Cergar. I was sad to learn that he died of a heart >attack, not long after making the film, which makes >him even more tragic. George Sanders plays an >empathetic Scotland Yard psychiatrist, I've always >liked his presence and imposing voice. >I don't want to say too much about it, other than it >had a great score, and if you love film noir with a >tragically romantic figure, set in turn-of-the-century >London, you've got to see it! The ending didn't >disappoint!! > >Hangover Square (film) >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > >IMDb profile >Hangover Square (1945) is a film noir directed by John >Brahm, based on the novel Hangover Square (1941) by >Patrick Hamilton. The screenplay was written by Barré >Lyndon who made a number of changes to the novel, >including the transformation of George Harvey Bone >into a classical composer-pianist and filming the >story as a turn-of-the-century period piece. > >The movie was released in New York City on February 7, >1945, two months after its star, Laird Cregar, >suffered a fatal heart attack. > >Plot >The locale is the late Victorian London, with the date >1899 shown in the opening scene. The period setting >creates a dark mood, especially in the key scene when >Bone (portrayed by Laird Cregar), having strangled >Netta (Linda Darnell) on Guy Fawkes Night, carries her >wrapped body through streets filled with revelers and >deposits it on top of the biggest bonfire. > >My note: I've always been intrigued by the ancient >Celtic Wicker Man, where they offered up live humans >to the gods, or so they say...so this scene of a Guy >Falks celebration, with a smaller version, a pyre you >still had to climb a ladder to put your dummy or doll >into, was so creepy to me, esp. watching Bone drag his >'dummy' (the mask was falling a bit, so you could >glimpse her face) up, into the, soon to be lit, tower! >I deleted the ending synopsis, of course! > >American composer Stephen Sondheim has cited >Herrmann's score for Hangover Square as a major >influence on his musical Sweeney Todd. > >Cast >Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone >Linda Darnell as Netta Longdon >George Sanders as Dr. Allan Middleton
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