Cregar, reportedly a self-loathing gay man, weighed 250 pounds and droppped 100 of them through dieting and surgery to transform himself into a leading man for his last role. There are two commentary tracks, one from Richard Schickel and the other from Steve Haberman, who impressively interviews Faye Marlowe, who was a 17-year-old when she made her screen debut in “Hangover Square,” wherein Cregar plays a schizophrenic composer turned homicidal pyromaniac. There’s also a radio dramatization of the flick, as well as of “The Lodger,” which ideally cast Cregar as Jack the Ripper in a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock silent classic. Both radio shows star Vincent Price, a close friend who delivered the eulogy at Cregar’s funeral. “I still miss him,” Price told me in an interview around 20 years ago. An impressive package indeed.

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