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Writers:
Barré Lyndon (screenplay)
Patrick Hamilton (novel)
Release Date:
29 October 1945 (Sweden) more
Tagline:
THE SCREEN'S MOST Terrifying LOVE STORY! EXCITING MYSTERY AND STRANGE EMOTION! (original print ad - mostly caps) more
Plot:
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory. full summary | add synopsis
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Bernard Hermann Tributes On Turner Classic Movies Every Tuesday In September
(From CinemaRetro. 26 August 2009, 9:43 AM, PDT)
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The greatest movie ever made about madness! more (33 total)
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77 min
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (certificate #10426)
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This was Laird Cregar's last film. more
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Look! It's old Ogilby's place!
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Featured in "Biography: Linda Darnell: Hollywood's Fallen Angel" (1999) more
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Have You Seen Joe? more
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My parents took me to see this when I was 8 & I had nightmares about it for a month or more - compounded by the knowledge that the lead, the great Laird Cregar died shortly after his appearance in it (of complications from dieting - at age 28!). The total immersion of this film into the clinical madness of a composer who cracks up when he hears discordant sounds & the greed & opportunism of his paramour give it a real nasty Edwardian gothic mood. There are scenes of creepiness here that seem almost the prototypes for Hitchcock classics like Psycho & Vertigo. (Bernard Hermann wrote the composer's scores as well as the background music). But it's also a great exercise on good vs evil, apollo vs dionysius & above all high art vs low art. The 2 main leads, Cregar & Sanders, the director & writer were involved in the making of The Lodger - a Jack the Ripper film - the year before.