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HANGOVER SQUARE
Hangover Square
1945
film noir directed by John Brahm,
based on the novel Hangover Square (1941) by Patrick Hamilton.
The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon who made a number of changes to the novel, including the change of George Harvey Bone into a classical composer-pianist and filming the story as an early 20th-century period piece.
The movie was released in New York City on February 7, 1945,
two months after its star, Laird Cregar, suffered a fatal heart attack.
Laird Cregar, a fan of the original novel, encouraged 20th Century Fox to buy the film rights. Fox relented, but wanted to recreate the success they had enjoyed with The Lodger the previous year and made several changes to the story, including the main character's personality and the setting. Cregar, George Sanders and John Brahm, who had all worked together in The Lodger, were announced as working on the film.
Cregar, who had ambitions of being a leading man and was worried that he would always be cast as a villain, refused the role and was put on suspension. Glenn Langan was announced as his replacement.
However, Cregar realized he could use his romantic scenes with Linda Darnell and Faye Marlowe to his advantage in order to change his public image into a more romantic one. He thus accepted the role, but began a radical crash diet to give his character more physical appeal.
The film had to be shot entirely in sequence so as to be consistent with Cregar's real life weight loss.
This frustrated director John Brahm, who frequently clashed with Cregar over how the film should be handled. Cregar, a real-life musician, was eager to perform the musical pieces on his own; however, Brahm insisted that Cregar mime. Cregar used amphetamines to aid his rapid weight loss which led to erratic behavior on his part. Brahm lost patience with Cregar and forced the entire cast and crew to sign a document stating they were on Brahm's side and not Cregar's in order to humiliate him into submission.
When the filming had ended, Cregar told Brahm: "Well, I think we've worked together long enough to know we never want to work together again."
George Sanders also brought complications. Having been put on suspension the previous year for refusing to perform in The Undying Monster, George accepted the role of Dr. Allan Middleton. However, he was unhappy with his script, particularly the final line in the film, which required him to justify the death of George Harvey Bone by saying, "He's better off this way." When shooting the scene, which was very expensive to film, George repeatedly refused to say the line. He later got into an altercation with the film's producer, Robert Bassler, which ended in George punching Bassler. The line was later changed to, "It's better this way."
American composer Stephen Sondheim has cited Herrmann's score for Hangover Square as a major influence on his musical Sweeney Todd
8/6/17
ANGEL FACE
Angel Face
1953
black-and-white film noir directed by Otto Preminger.
The drama, filmed on location in Beverly Hills, California,
features Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons.
"Preminger transforms a second rate James M. Cain murder plot,
re-orchestrating this textbook tale of passion and murder into a haunting and haunted refrain.
The by then clichéd story line is pared away and brought down to an elemental level --
there is not a wasted scene in the film —
and the story's familiarity breeds an aftertaste of inevitability and doom.
The hallucinogenic nature of the proceedings is accented with Preminger's direction and camerawork, having actors drift from foreground to background or having the camera track to fluid and suffocating close-ups. Preminger, ever the mesmerizer, weaves his style into a half-dreamt haze of nightmare."
It was also named by critic Robin Wood as one of his top 10 films, shortly before his death.
In 1963, Jean-Luc Godard named it the 8th best American Sound film
7/28/17
4/2/17
THE SUSPECT
THE SUSPECT
(1944)
film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, set in London in 1902, in Edwardian times. It is based on the novel This Way Out, by James Ronald, and was released by Universal Pictures. It stars Charles Laughton and Ella Raines.
11/3/16
10/7/16
ANTEBELLUM PRESENTS- OUR ANNUAL ALL HALLOWS EVE GROUP SHOW- "OTHERWORLDLY NOIR- OCT 8TH
PRESENTS
OTHERWORLDLY NOIR
ANNUAL ALL HALLOWS EVE GROUP SHOW
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renfield
FEATURING
MISS MEATFACE
THOMAS ACEVEDO
SCARLETT ROUGE
MATT PIPES
ERIC MERTENS
ERIC MERTENS
CHRISTOPHER LISSNER
MARK HAYWARD
ELAINE PARKS
HELEN VAN DEER NEER
RICK CASTRO
RENFIELD
DAVE NAZ
MARTIN MATAMOROS
RICHARD ANKROM
JOEL-PETER WITKIN
JOEL-PETER WITKIN
JAY MOYES
DAVID ARKADHIA
DAVID CROCKER
KAI TEICHERT
JC GONZO
AND MORE!
ASA FOX
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY
EL ORBE
OPENING RECEPTION
OCTOBER 8TH
7PM -9PM
$5 COVER
(COSTUMES ENCOURAGED)
(ON DISPLAY THRU NOV 3RD)
GENERAL GALLERY HOURS
WEDS- 5PM-7PM- TEA SALON
THURSDAY THRU SATURDAY-1PM-7PM
OCTOBER IS MY FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR.
IT'S THE TIME OF THE YEAR WHEN THE VEILS OF OTHER DIMENSIONS ARE THIN.
THUS CREATING THE BEST COMMUNICATION OF THE WORLD OF
"REALITY" AND THE WORLD OF SPIRIT & DREAMS.
martin matamoros
scarlette rouge
10/5/16
OTHERWORLDY NOIR- ANTEBELLUM'S ALL HALLOWS EVE GROUP SHOW- OCTOBER 8TH
PRESENTS
OTHERWORLDLY NOIR
ANNUAL ALL HALLOWS EVE GROUP SHOW
kai teachert
matt pipes
FEATURING
MISS MEATFACE
THOMAS ACEVEDO
SCARLETT ROUGE
MATT PIPES
ERIC MERTENS
ERIC MERTENS
CHRISTOPHER LISSNER
MARK HAYWARD
ELAINE PARKS
HELEN VAN DEER NEER
RICK CASTRO
RENFIELD
DAVE NAZ
MARTIN MATAMOROS
RICHARD ANKROM
JOEL-PETER WITKIN
JOEL-PETER WITKIN
JAY MOYES
DAVID ARKADHIA
DAVID CROCKER
KAI TEICHERT
JC GONZO
AND MORE!
ASA FOX
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY
EL ORBE
OPENING RECEPTION
OCTOBER 8TH
7PM -9PM
$5 COVER
(COSTUMES ENCOURAGED)
(ON DISPLAY THRU NOV 3RD)
GENERAL GALLERY HOURS
WEDS- 5PM-7PM- TEA SALON
THURSDAY THRU SATURDAY-1PM-7PM
OCTOBER IS MY FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR.
IT'S THE TIME OF THE YEAR WHEN THE VEILS OF OTHER DIMENSIONS ARE THIN.
THUS CREATING THE BEST COMMUNICATION OF THE WORLD OF
"REALITY" AND THE WORLD OF SPIRIT & DREAMS.
OTHERWORLDLY:
- A time to relate to, resembling that of a world other than the actual world. a time to devote. to preparing for a world to comea time to devote to intellectual & imaginative pursuits.the artists for "otherworldly noir" express their dreamsRICK CASTRO- CURATOR
miss. meatface & eric mertens
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