Antonius Block Charles Boyer is deliciously creepy and evil in this psychological thriller from 1944, and Ingrid Bergman plays the part of his young wife well, slowly tricked into believing she's losing her mind. Joseph Cotten is her knight in shining armor, and Angela Lansbury makes the most of a small part in her very first film role at the age of 18, as the somewhat flirtatious young maid in the house, and we wonder if she has a role in the scheming that's going on. I loved how Director George Cukor made the film as claustrophobic as Bergman feels herself, by keeping most of the scenes indoor amidst dark lighting and shadows, and outdoor scenes enveloped in London fog. It's quite atmospheric. The movie seems to lack tension towards the middle, when everyone knows what's going on - what Boyer is doing and how he is doing it (which is a bit of a weakness) – but it ends very well, with some scenes that may have you on the edge of your seat.

writers_reign Tilly Walbrook does everything but chew the scenery in this Victorian meller and gives little indication of the suave polish with which he would mc La Ronde some ten years later. Patrick Hamilton had a penchant for the offbeat (Rope, Hangover Square) and was, in some ways, a domestic Cornell Woollrich and both, of course, had novels, stories, successfully adapted for the screen. This is the one where the husband goes to elaborate lengths - stealing small items from her room - to convince his wife she is losing her mind in the interests of locating the jewels for which he murdered her aunt 20 years earlier. This is the flaw in the ointment as all he would need to do would be to send his wife on an extended holiday and ransack the house at leisure but then, of course, there would be no story. Thorold Dickinson, blue-eyed boy and Academics darling back in the day but now forgotten does a workmanlike job.

Sofia Duarte I wasn't expecting much of this movie, because i'm not a Ingrid Bergman fan, i always think she over acted in the dramatic scenes. But i think she's perfect in this movie, she is believable every single time, you inevitably go with her downwards that spiral of depression and despair for believing she's losing her mind. Charles Boyer was flawless as the sociopath that ruins ones live to serve his interests solely. I loved some of his facial expressions, and particularly that close up on his face when he asked Bergman about the picture.The movie is brilliant! I do love a good psychological thriller, being one of my favorite genres. The story is incredibly good, the pace is right, the dialogs weren't very clever, they didn't have much depth as you would expect of this genre. What i mean is, Bergman believed to easily she was losing her mind without questioning herself and the times she did it was as if it was a rhetorical question. But given the year it was filmed it's excusable since men didn't expect women to think too much.Overall putting the film in the year he was filmed, it's pretty good, and very enjoyable even for todays audiences. I rate it as a "must see".

Ross622 George Cukor's Gaslight is a movie very similar to the many Alfred Hitchcock movies that I saw, but this movie is less in depth when it comes to the psychological thriller part but it still had a superb screenplay. The movie stars Charles Boyer in a terrific performance as Greg Anton a man who comes to a new house with his new wife Paula (played by Ingrid Bergman in an Oscar winning performance)after her aunt gets murdered many years earlier, and then he keeps some jewels a secret and convince his wife that she is ill and out of her mind just to make her mad without even realizing it, then later on in the movie a detective named Brian Cameron (played by Joseph Cotten) who comes into the home to ask her some questions, and then find out Greg's little shortcut from upstairs in the attic back into their residence. Cukor's film tries to convince grown ups to watch out for who you marry because you may not know the way that he/she will treat you during the time course of the marriage.