Hangover Square. 1945. Directed by John Brahm

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Hangover Square. 1945. USA. Directed by John Brahm. Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp./Photofest

Hangover Square. 1945. USA. Directed by John Brahm. Written by Barré Lyndon. With Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders. 35mm. 77 min.

Having scored an unexpected hit with The Lodger in 1944, producer Robert Bassler reunited director John Brahm, writer Barré Lyndon, and star Laird Cregar for another tale of gaslit villainy, this time about a brilliant but psychotic composer who suffers “dark moods” in which he can’t control or remember his actions. Breaking from her ethereal, nice-girl image, Darnel plays an ambitious music hall performer who charms Cregar in hopes of getting a song out of him. For Cregar, an extraordinary performer who was both massive and vulnerable, Hangover Square would be his last film—he died of a heart attack, apparently caused by abdominal surgery and crash dieting, before the film was released.

This film accompanies Modern Matinees: Linda Darnell, Dark Lady of Fox.

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