Gaslight (1940)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Jun 25, 1940 Wide
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The 1940 British production of Gaslight was the first of two cinematic adaptations of Patrick Hamilton's play. Oozing faux continental charm, Anton Walbrook inveigles his way into the confidence of the young mistress (Diana Wynyard) of a large Victorian mansion. Walbrook is searching for the rubies that he'd stolen from the previous owner of the house -- whom he'd also murdered. Suspecting that Wynyard is about to catch on to his secret, Walbrook enlists the aid of a sluttish maidservant to
Jun 25, 1940 Wide
Jun 12, 2007
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Cast
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Anton Walbrook
Paul Mallen -
Diana Wynyard
Bella Mallen -
Frank Pettingell
Rough -
Cathleen Cordell
Nancy -
Robert Newton
Vincent Ullswater -
Jimmy Hanley
Cobb -
Minnie Rayner
Elizabeth -
Mary Hinton
Lady Winterbourne -
Marie Wright
Alice Barlow -
Jack Barty
Chairman of Music Hall -
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Aubrey Dexter
House Agent -
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The first, British version of Patrick Hamilton's popular play, is extremely well acted by Diana Wynyard and Anton Walbrook, but Cukor's MGM version, with Osar-winning Ingrid Bergman, is superior.
So much goes right in this film version, all without sparking a corresponding bump in my enthusiasm, that it's all the more obvious that I find some foundations of this text perennially problematic.
The British got to the play first, and theirs is the leaner, tauter script, if not the better movie.
The husband is played by Anton Walbrook, who is far more sinister and emotionless than Charles Boyer would be in the later version.
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- Paul Mallen: But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!
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Foreign Titles
- Gaslight (1940) (DE)
- Gaslight (1940) (UK)
