Gaslight (1944)
(The Murder in Thornton Square)
Country: US
Technical: bw 114m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Synopsis:
A husband returns with his wife to a house in which her aunt was murdered years previously, whereupon he begins to act strangely, oblivious to the apparent effects on her sanity.
Review:
Good-looking remake of the Dickinson classic, padding it and making unnecessary changes to the names and scenario. Bergman was an all but inevitable choice for the fragile Paula and does a fine job, while everything is professional efficiency incarnate, but this does not have the visceral power or manic intensity of the original.
(The Murder in Thornton Square)
Country: US
Technical: bw 114m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Synopsis:
A husband returns with his wife to a house in which her aunt was murdered years previously, whereupon he begins to act strangely, oblivious to the apparent effects on her sanity.
Review:
Good-looking remake of the Dickinson classic, padding it and making unnecessary changes to the names and scenario. Bergman was an all but inevitable choice for the fragile Paula and does a fine job, while everything is professional efficiency incarnate, but this does not have the visceral power or manic intensity of the original.
(The Murder in Thornton Square)
Country: US
Technical: bw 114m
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Synopsis:
A husband returns with his wife to a house in which her aunt was murdered years previously, whereupon he begins to act strangely, oblivious to the apparent effects on her sanity.
Review:
Good-looking remake of the Dickinson classic, padding it and making unnecessary changes to the names and scenario. Bergman was an all but inevitable choice for the fragile Paula and does a fine job, while everything is professional efficiency incarnate, but this does not have the visceral power or manic intensity of the original.