Hangover Square (1945)

 

A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.

Unusual Noir melodrama nicely staged in period London has a quite unconvincing plot, but Laird Gregar is fascinating as the madman musician, and Bernard Herrmann's score is excellent as always.

Halliwell*: "This rather empty melodrama has almost nothing to do with the book from which it is allegedly taken, but the Hollywoodian evocation of gaslit London is richly entertaining and good to look at."

Maltin***: "Cregar (in his final film) is delicious...result is still entertaining, with superb Victorian London sets and evocative Bernard Herrmann score." 

The Twilight Zone: Mr. Dingle, the Strong (1961)

The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last (1959)

A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.

A good story with a great  Burgess Meredith unfortunately ends a bit as a bad joke.