Hangover Square

THE SCREEN'S MOST Terrifying LOVE STORY! EXCITING MYSTERY AND STRANGE EMOTION!
Hangover Square (1945)
7.2/10
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Production
Release date
Budget
$1 154 000
Revenue
$1 798 500
Director
Scenario
Composer
Producer
Robert Bassler
Actors
Photo Laird Cregar
Laird Cregar
George Harvey Bone
Photo Linda Darnell
Linda Darnell
Netta Longdon
Photo George Sanders
George Sanders
Dr. Allan Middleton
Photo Glenn Langan
Glenn Langan
Eddie Carstairs
Photo Faye Marlowe
Faye Marlowe
Barbara Chapman
Photo Alan Napier
Alan Napier
Sir Henry Chapman
J.W. Austin
Det. Insp. King (uncredited)
Ted Billings
Pub Patron (uncredited)
All actors and roles (10)

Short description

In turn-of-the-century London, a composer named George Harvey Bone is struggling to finish a piano concerto. Under pressure, he suffers blackouts and comes to in unfamiliar places, unsure of what he has done. A doctor advises him to rest, and he attends a performance by the singer Netta Longdon. Drawn to her, he sets his concerto aside and writes songs for her instead, but jealousy and fear of his own episodes take hold as his work and his feelings for Netta pull against each other.

John Brahm directed the film for 20th Century Fox, from a screenplay by Barré Lyndon and produced by Robert Bassler. It was Brahm's fourth feature, following Girls' School, Wintertime and Tonight We Raid Calais. Laird Cregar plays Bone, with Linda Darnell as Netta, George Sanders as Dr. Allan Middleton, Glenn Langan, Faye Marlowe and Alan Napier among the credited cast of twenty.

Made for about a million dollars, the film took roughly twice that at the box office. It runs 78 minutes, and audiences on TMDB rate it 7 out of 10 from 76 votes, while a critics' score of 7.3 out of 10 from 39 reviews places professional assessment slightly above the viewer average.

What's left behind the scenes

  • The film is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Patrick Hamilton, whose plays were the basis for such famous psychological thrillers as "Gas Light" and "Rope." The screenplay by Barre Lyndon contains some significant differences from the novel, in particular, the action is moved from pre-war London in 1939 to Victorian London in 1899, and the main character is transformed from a socialite alcoholic into a professional composer.
  • Stephen Sondheim stated that this film inspired him to write his "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."

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