Hangover Square

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945. Two vintage studio still photographs, one borderless from the 1945 film noir. Borderless photograph has folded mimeo snipe affixed to verso, other photograph has a "King Features Syndicate, Inc. Library" stamp on the verso.

Based on the 1941 novel by John Brahm.

The producers decided to move the setting from then-present-day early 1940s to the late 1800s, giving the film a "Gaslight" feel in terms of atmosphere. But the story itself is far more harrowing, one of the most effective and disturbing Film Noirs of the 1940s, with a Bernard Herrmann score (including an actual "invented" piano concerto) to go with it.

The second of two key films John Brahm made with the great Laird Cregar in an unsympathetic lead role. Cregar specialized in creepy, ambiguous characters, a type he virtually invented in "I Wake Up Screaming" (1941), honed in Brahm's "The Lodger" (1944), and perfected in this film, which was to be his last —the actor died of self-imposed malnutrition before he could see the premiere. .

1) 8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing, else Near Fine
1) 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine

Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US.

[Book #148183]