Thread: The SRP Movie Quiz

My last two pictures and some other clues:

• The leading actor died in 1944 at the age of 28.
• This was his last movie.
• Yes, that's fire in the second picture!
• The piano music being played was written just for this movie and perfectly underscores the events of the last 10 minutes of the movie.

Dont make me hunt down other pictures! These were the best I could find.

Good clues: Laird Cregar in Hangover Square.

I haven't seen it, but it looks good. I'll have to check it out.

I googled "movie 1944 died age 28" and got "The Lodger"

I haven't seen it though

oh yeah, hanover square was the last movie released that he played in according to imdb...

Originally Posted by bpave777

Good clues: Laird Cregar in Hangover Square.

I haven't seen it, but it looks good. I'll have to check it out.

The clues were apparently too good!

In any case that's it. It is worth checking out for a couple of reasons (at least).

First, Laird Cregar was an outstanding actor who died young and only has a limited collection of movie credits. As a matter of fact, you should see all of his movies!

Second, The Bernard Hermann "Concerto Macabre" is also outstanding and the way it was integrated into the last part of the movie was a masterpiece of movie scoring.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

I googled "movie 1944 died age 28" and got "The Lodger"

I haven't seen it though

oh yeah, hanover square was the last movie released that he played in according to imdb...

Tricked! Although Laird Cregar died in December 1944 the film wasn't released until 1945. I doubt he ever got to see it. It was a bit of a follow-on to The Lodger (1944) in that he played similar characters in a similar setting in both. The second was made because of the success of the first and I think is one of those rare cases where the follow-on is better than the original.

P.S. The first movie I saw him in was This Gun For Hire (where that other picture came from). He is a pretty damned convincing an actor.

A friend of mine made this next one. Became a cult classic:

Originally Posted by bpave777

A friend of mine made this next one. Became a cult classic:

Guessing early '70s.

If they are trying to look tough they shouldn't all have crash bars!

I believe I have seen that image before. Maybe it will float up to the surface through the sludge in a while.

P.S. I see you are from San Francisco. I lived in Boulder Creek from '73 to '77 and road my Norton 850 all over those mountain roads and up and down the coast highway and nearly every road in between.

Originally Posted by TexasBob

P.S. I see you are from San Francisco. I lived in Boulder Creek from '73 to '77 and road my Norton 850 all over those mountain roads and up and down the coast highway and nearly every road in between.

That's some good riding down there. I was just up at Alice's two weeks ago. It was beautiful. I need to do another trip down 9 and around to Santa Cruz soon.

Here comes the star power. In one of his first movies. Clue is in the name of the jpeg:

crouching tiger hidden dragon?


That guess is going to work one of these times.

Matt