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Gaslight (1944)

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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel "women's picture" director George Cukor. Bergman stars as Paula Alquist, a late 19th century English singer studying music in Italy. However, Paula abandons her studies because she's fallen in love with dapper, handsome Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). The couple marries and returns to the U.K. and a home inherited by Paula from her aunt, herself a famous singer, who was

Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics

Directed By: George Cukor , Thorold Dickinson

Written By: Patrick Hamilton, John Van Druten, A.R. Rawlinson, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston

In Theaters: May 11, 1944 Limited

On DVD: Feb 3, 2004

MGM

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Cast

Ingrid Bergman
Paula Alquist
Joseph Cotten
Brian Cameron
Angela Lansbury
Nancy Oliver
Charles Boyer
Gregory Anton
Dame May Whitty
Miss Thwaites
Terry Moore
Paula age 14
Barbara Everest
Elizabeth Tompkins
Emil Rameau
Maestro Guardi
Edmund Breon
Gen. Huddleston
Halliwell Hobbes
Mr. Mufflin
Tom Stevenson
Williams
Heather Thatcher
Lady Dalroy
Lawrence Grossmith
Lord Dalroy
Jacob Gimpel
Pianist
Wilson Benge
Bit part
Leila Bennett
Edna Hooper
Arthur Blake
Butler
Lillian Bronson
Lady
Leonard Carey
Guide
Alec Craig
Turnkey
Al Ferguson
Bit part
Helen Flint
Franchette
Gibson Gowland
Servant
Joy Harrington
Miss Pritchard
Si Jenks
Uncle Billy
Edwin Maxwell
Vickery
Charles McNaughton
Wilkins
Clive Morgan
Bit part
George Nokes
Bit part
Elsa Prescott
Bit part
Sid Saylor
Baggage Clerk
Morgan Wallace
Fred Garrett
Eric Wilton
Valet
Eustace Wyatt
Budge
Arnold Bennett
Footman
Bobby Hale
Lamplighter
Guy Zanette
Bit part
Harry Adams
Policeman
Maude Fealy
Bit part
Pat Malone
Policeman
Arthur Stone
Durkin
Anton Walbrook
Diana Wynyard
Frank Pettingell
Cathleen Cordell
Robert Newton

Critic Reviews for Gaslight

All Critics (22) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (2) | DVD (15)

Brilliant classic of mind-game suspense.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Classic drama-horror with put upon Bergman and suavely evil Boyer.

December 21, 2006 Comment

Steve Crum

Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

Soaked in paranoia, Cukor's superb pyschological thriller is a period film noir, just like Hitchcock's The Lodger and Hanover Square, both set in the Edwardian age.

July 5, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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A terrific atmospheric thriller.

December 8, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Angela Lansbury's career as a slut got off to its promising start in Cukor's ode to the eggshell-fragile grip women have on their senses whenever confronted by French men.

February 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

Gaslight ultimately adds up to very little in the psychological mind-**** department.

February 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

The 1944 Gaslight is the more expensive and the more elegant production, with an even creepier tone than the British version.

February 10, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Although the 1940 edition rushes to tell its story, the 1944 rendition is content to linger over details of Victorian atmosphere, plush set designs, and spooky noises.

February 10, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

a moderately entertaining variation on the old gothic thriller

January 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Chris Barsanti

Filmcritic.com

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A very Hitchcockian thriller, if not close to the quality of the best movies by Hitchcock or his imitators. The plot (involving a woman who slowly seems to be losing her grip on reality...or is she?) probably was much more effective in 1944, now this kind of thing has been done so many times that it seems painfully

July 26, 2010

Lewis C.

Super Reviewer

Similar to other suspense movies of the forties, but still a pretty powerful story. I really like this movie.

September 5, 2010

AJ Verser

Super Reviewer

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