Hangover Square
On a dark side street in London at the turn of the century an old shopkeeper is stabbed and his place set ablaze. As George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) finds himself walking sown the street away from t…
Hangover Square
On a dark side street in London at the turn of the century an old shopkeeper is stabbed and his place set ablaze. As George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) finds himself walking sown the street away from the fire he realizes he cannot remember what he has done for the last half hour or where he has been. When he reaches home and his fiancée Barbara Chapman (Faye Marlowe) he feels he may be responsible for the crime of the dead shopkeeper and goes to see his doctor, attached to Scotland Yard, Dr. Allan Middleton (George Sanders) who cannot find evidence that George has been involved in the crime. George has been experiencing periods of memory loss for some time and though he is deeply involved in writing a new concerto that has been promised a public concert he feels constricted by his daily routine and periods of memory loss. For diversion George goes to a beer hall where he discovers Netta London (Linda Darnell) entertaining a full house of men with her singing. George approaches Netta and her manager with a new song he has written and the three partner together to produce and sell it. George is successful at writing popular songs and falls in love with Netta but the singer has bigger plans and strings George along to get him to write more songs for her. When he discovers that she is planning to marry someone else George strangles Netta and puts her dead body on a bon fire to destroy it. When Dr. Middleton discovers the truth he attempts to get George medical help but the composer demands to play his concert and when the police move it to take George away a deadly confrontation occurs.
Hangover Square
Crime,Drama,Horror
Film Details
On a dark side street in London at the turn of the century an old shopkeeper is stabbed and his place set ablaze. As George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) finds himself walking sown the street away from the fire he realizes he cannot remember what he has done for the last half hour or where he has been. When he reaches home and his fiancée Barbara Chapman (Faye Marlowe) he feels he may be responsible for the crime of the dead shopkeeper and goes to see his doctor, attached to Scotland Yard, Dr.
Allan Middleton (George Sanders) who cannot find evidence that George has been involved in the crime. George has been experiencing periods of memory loss for some time and though he is deeply involved in writing a new concerto that has been promised a public concert he feels constricted by his daily routine and periods of memory loss. For diversion George goes to a beer hall where he discovers Netta London (Linda Darnell) entertaining a full house of men with her singing.
George approaches Netta and her manager with a new song he has written and the three partner together to produce and sell it. George is successful at writing popular songs and falls in love with Netta but the singer has bigger plans and strings George along to get him to write more songs for her. When he discovers that she is planning to marry someone else George strangles Netta and puts her dead body on a bon fire to destroy it.
When Dr. Middleton discovers the truth he attempts to get George medical help but the composer demands to play his concert and when the police move it to take George away a deadly confrontation occurs..