Gaslight (1940)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Robert Newton
Synopsis:
Years after a wealthy widow was murdered for her rubies, a man returns with his wife to occupy the house in Pimlico Square. However, her health deteriorates as she hears noises and notices the gaslight fluctuating.
Review:
A classic stage play is given imaginative cinematic treatment by Dickinson, who handles the settings and the flickering shadows with aplomb. Meanwhile Walbrook and Wynyard both give affecting and committed performances. This is without doubt one of the masterpieces of British cinema, which MGM tried to buy up and destroy when preparing to remake it four years later.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Robert Newton
Synopsis:
Years after a wealthy widow was murdered for her rubies, a man returns with his wife to occupy the house in Pimlico Square. However, her health deteriorates as she hears noises and notices the gaslight fluctuating.
Review:
A classic stage play is given imaginative cinematic treatment by Dickinson, who handles the settings and the flickering shadows with aplomb. Meanwhile Walbrook and Wynyard both give affecting and committed performances. This is without doubt one of the masterpieces of British cinema, which MGM tried to buy up and destroy when preparing to remake it four years later.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 84m
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Robert Newton
Synopsis:
Years after a wealthy widow was murdered for her rubies, a man returns with his wife to occupy the house in Pimlico Square. However, her health deteriorates as she hears noises and notices the gaslight fluctuating.
Review:
A classic stage play is given imaginative cinematic treatment by Dickinson, who handles the settings and the flickering shadows with aplomb. Meanwhile Walbrook and Wynyard both give affecting and committed performances. This is without doubt one of the masterpieces of British cinema, which MGM tried to buy up and destroy when preparing to remake it four years later.