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Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton's Gas Light (1938) – than does the 1944 MGM remake.
Producer-director Herbert Wilcox cast him as Prince Albert in Victoria the Great (1937) and its sequel Sixty Glorious Years (1938). In Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a romantic melodrama, he was a Polish pianist torn over whether to return home. Thorold Dickinson cast Walbrook in Gaslight (1940), in the role played by Charles Boyer in the later ...
Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury in her film debut. Adapted by John Van Druten , Walter Reisch , and John L. Balderston from Patrick Hamilton 's play Gas Light (1938), it follows a young woman whose husband slowly ...
Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1940: Before I Hang: Nick Grinde: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Bruce Bennett: United States [1] Foreign Correspondent: Alfred Hitchcock: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day: United States [2] Gaslight: Thorold Dickinson: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell: United Kingdom [3] Night Train to Munich: Carol Reed: Rex ...
Charles Boyer (French: [ʃaʁl bwaje]; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. [1] After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American films during the 1930s.
Her best remembered success was as the frightened heroine of Gaslight (1940), the first film version of Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light. This was followed by roles opposite Clive Brook in Freedom Radio, John Gielgud in The Prime Minister and Michael Redgrave in Kipps (all 1941), directed by Carol Reed, later her first husband.
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953).
He appeared in such films as the original version of Gaslight (1940), Kipps (1941 - as Old Kipps), and Becket (1964 - as the Bishop of York). His collection of printed and manuscript playscripts - mostly acquired from the son of the comedian Arthur Williams (1844–1915) - is held at the Templeman Library, University of Kent . [ 3 ]