Let’s shine some light on this video treatment. Also of note is the smartly orchestrated score by Bronislau Kaper. The set design is fantastic – convincing and claustrophobic. London never appears any way but foggy and the film was entirely filmed on a soundstage so they could control every aspect of the atmospherics. I love all the atmospheric touches employed in the film. The film looks and feels like one of those great Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes that I watched as a child. The film is tense from the beginning and he never lets the film fall out of the paranoia that it is trying to spin. George Cukor takes his time with the film and lets things play out slowly to the point of exasperation. The finale ends with one of the great monologues and Bergman delivers the goods there in a way that should inspire every woman ever called crazy by their partner. The real show is watching the interaction between Bergman and Boyer. Lansbury secured an Oscar nomination at the tender age of seventeen with her performance. I also enjoyed both Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury, but their roles are not nearly as meaty. He is so cold, menacing, and calculating that he makes one of the better film villains of the golden era. Charles Boyer is the villainous husband that every actor has tried to emulate since.
You can’t help but believe that she is going through Hell. Bergman was a fantastic actress and her work here speaks for itself. She makes you feel every emotion and her desperation as she is toyed with. As she struggles with her fear that she has gone mad, it is hard on the audience. Ingrid Bergman won her first Academy Award (of 3) for her performance in the film. At the same time a Detective from Scotland Yard (Joseph Cotten) becomes interested in the unsolved murder and the jewels that were never recovered from the scene of the crime. Over time Paula is convinced by Gregory that she is losing her mind. Gregory takes hold of the household affairs and hires on another staff member, Nancy (Angela Lansbury.) He tells the staff that Paula is high strung and not well. He says that she must forget her for them to build new happiness, and Paula replies that she must only forget the murder.
Arriving at the house, Paula finds a note from somebody sent to her aunt two days before her death, and Gregory snatches it from her hand. Her aunt had died in front of her portrait next to the fireplace- strangled to death -when Paula found the body. To fulfill his dream, she decides that they can move there once married, despite her traumatic experience there. She reveals that her aunt had left her the house in Thornton Square. While spending time at the Italian hotel, Gregory recommends that they live in London in a house in a square. When Paula steps off the train, Gregory is waiting on Paula. She explains that ten years earlier at 9 Thornton Square a famous singer named Alice had been murdered, not realizing she is speaking to the niece of the deceased. On the train she meets a woman (Dame May Whitty) from London who lives at Thornton Square. She wants to leave for a week so that she can decide. Unbeknownst to the maestro, she has fallen in love with her piano accompaniment, Gregory (Charles Boyer.) They have only known each other for two weeks but he wants to marry her. She is distracted because she is in love.
Maestro Guardi teaches Paula to sing but she struggles. Paula (Ingrid Bergman) leaves by stagecoach to Italy to think of the future and not the past. In gaslit Victorian London, a murder has occurred with no apparent solution.
After watching the film I understood how the archetypes depicted in it have been reignited in films since. I was excited that thanks to this release I would finally get to see Gaslight which is commonly cited in film criticism. The film was a remake of a 1940 British film, but the Cukor version is better known. Directed by George Cukor in 1944, Gaslight is a Victorian noir that has inspired films for decades. With the release of Gaslight, they have given viewers an opportunity to see one of the most influential psychological thrillers from the 1940s. Whenever the label focuses on the noir films from their large catalog, viewers are in for a treat.
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