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Starring: Charles Boyer,  Ingrid Bergman,  Joseph Cotten,  Dame May Whitty,  Angela Lansbury, 
Directed By: George Cukor,  Thorold Dickinson, 
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Release Date: 1944-05-11
Studio: Warner Home Video
Format: Closed-captioned,  Color,  Dubbed,  DVD-Video,  Subtitled,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about Gaslight

Description
Beautiful and trusting, Paula Anton is slowly tormented by mysterious happenings in her luxurious Victorian home. The suspect is her devoted husband. But viewing the world through the dim glow of the gaslight, it is difficult to tell what is real and what is imagined.

Amazon.com
George Cukor helped transform a moody Victorian stage melodrama (previously filmed in Britain in 1939) into a gothic Hollywood romantic thriller. Ingrid Bergman stars as a meek, uncertain heiress courted and married in a whirlwind romance by the debonair Charles Boyer, but when they move back into her childhood home she begins losing her grip on reality and becomes convinced that her husband is trying to drive her insane. Joseph Cotten, rather stiff and colorless next to the anguished Bergman and charming and lively Boyer, is the heroic Scotland Yard detective who becomes enamored of the skittish woman who is slowly succumbing to madness. The grand, glorious sets and elegant photography recall Hitchcock's Rebecca, another lush Hollywood gothic melodrama of a retiring young wife overwhelmed by the history of her abode, and Gaslight is still assumed by some to be a Hitchcock film (the Bergman connection doesn't help the confusion). It's really a rather straightforward thriller with a forced plot device, but under Cukor's control the tightly constructed script is given the full MGM treatment, then reined in for intimate moments of harrowing suspense. Boyer brilliantly played off his continental lover reputation by adding an undercurrent of malevolence and Bergman won an Oscar for her haunted performance. It also marks the memorable debut of Angela Lansbury as a saucy maid unwittingly drawn into Boyer's master plan. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews for Gaslight

Excelente película
Excelente película. Brillantes actuaciones de Boyer, Bergman, Lansbury, Cotten y Whitty. Bergman ganó un merecido Oscar a mejor actriz, pero la actuación de Boyer es sencillamente sobresaliente; encarna con maestría a un villano doméstico pero peligroso, dominante pero atribulado, calculador y arriesgado, a la vez. Una expresión realista de la mezquindad humana.
El DVD contiene la versión original y también excelente de 1940.
Efraín.Gaslight

Perfect Suspense Story
My family enjoyed this nail-biting drama about a husband trying to make his wife think she is going mad. Charles Boyet is wonderful as the 'bad guy' and Ingrid Bergman is very young and plays the perfect wife. I love this story and never fail to be drawn into the drama being played out on the screen, no matter how many times I watch it. I highly recommend this to all movie buffs that like Ingrid Berman and films that the whole family can sit down and enjoy together.Gaslight

Gaslight
This is one of our favorite Ingrid Bergman movies. We watch it every so often when there is nothing on TV. It is a shame that movies today are not made more like the old classic movies. The movies today are nothing but sex and bad language.Gaslight

Been wanting to watch this for a long time...
I have passed by this movie many times in the library, and finally decided to pick it up. I was glad that I did! It satisfied my need for something subtle and suspenseful.

Paula was living in London with her aunt, a famous singer/actress, Alice. Her aunt was violently killed and Paula was traumatized. So she fled, as her aunt was the only parent known to her. While she is trying to become a singer herself, she falls in love with the piano player after only having known him for two weeks. After lots of pressure, Gregory pursuades Paula to move back to her house, the one her aunt died in. After all, it was left to her.

It is then that Paula seems to change from an active, full of life woman, to someone who is ill, isolated, and depressed. Every night, she hears footsteps in the attic, (no one else does, especially the half-deaf cook)and the gaslight appears to go down, when no one in the house is touching another. Her husband is also not the same man she married. The maid and the cook don't understand what is wrong with her. She doesn't have anyone to turn to, and slowly goes mad. But, why?

Though you realize pretty early what will happen at the end and who the killer is, it doesn't ruin the movie for you. The acting is excellent, especially by Nancy (played by an adorable 18 year old Angela Lansbury) the sardonic, and slightly tarty maid.

Though there are many times when I have to be "in the mood" for old movies, but I don't know why...because every time I see one, I am pleasantly surprised! Recommended!Gaslight

Darkly Entertaining
This lovely black and white film with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten and if you'll notice a very young Angela Lansbury as their maid.
It's suspenseful,exciting and filmed gorgeously.
The tittle comes from the mysterious gas lights which keep dimming and lighting and mentally threaten Ingrid Bergman's character of a newlywed believing she's ready for a nervous breakdown.
Very entertaining and doesn't lose it's magic after all these years.Gaslight

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