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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.
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 ...
Gaslight is a 1958 television play broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation based on the 1938 play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton. It starred Beverley Dunn. It starred Beverley Dunn. [ 3 ]
Gas Light is a 1938 thriller play, set in 1880s London, written by the British novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton. [1] Hamilton's play is a dark tale of a marriage based on deceit and trickery, and a husband committed to driving his wife insane in order to steal from her. [1] Gas Light was written during a dark period in Hamilton's life. [1]
Gaslit begins in early 1972 and follows the story of the Watergate scandal through the lives of several individuals on its periphery. [1] Nixon, for example, is rarely seen, while the main protagonist is Martha Mitchell—known as "The Mouth from the South" due to her propensity for talking to the press, often at inopportune times for her husband, John.
Released in the same year as the more famous Gaslight, both films share the theme of a domineering husband manipulating his wife's reality through various forms of harassment, false flags and cruelty. In both films the heroine is admonished by the husband for suffering delusions until she is rescued by a concerned suitor.
In a poll held by the Empire magazine in 2008, it was voted 318th 'Greatest Movie of All Time' from a list of 500. [25] In 2016, Empire ranked the film at No. 23 on their list of "The 100 best British films" because although it was an American production the film was set in England and mainly starred English actors and actresses. [ 26 ]
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten in the 1944 American film version of Gaslight. The term originates in the 1938 British play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton.The play was adapted into a 1940 film in the UK, Gaslight, which was remade as in the US as the 1944 film Gaslight.