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Directed by George Cukor and based on the play by Patrick Hamilton, let's discuss the film Gaslight. The film follows a young woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is descending into insanity.
With Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Breon, Barbara Everest, Lawrence Grossmith, and INTRODUCING ANGELA LANSBURY.
This Halloween season, let's discuss the film noir GASLIGHT.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 19, 2025 4:36 PM |
This version (the play was filmed more than once) is the best. It may be old, but it's engaging and suspenseful. Great cast!!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 19, 2025 12:57 AM |
I love everything about this movie, though I find myself slightly annoyed when Ingrid Bergman loses it at the piano house concert - I get it, she’s being gaslighted. I just wish she had held it together a little longer, but then we obviously wouldn’t have this wonderful, chilling movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 19, 2025 12:57 AM |
A perfect spooky non-horror film to watch in October!
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 19, 2025 12:59 AM |
Don't watch this movie. It's about a sappy happily married couple. The performances are dire. The directing is atrocious. The writing is abysmal. The cinematography and art direction are amateurish. Ingrid Bergman didn't really win an Oscar for her performance. This is not a masterpiece.
You believe me, don't you? I'd never lie to you. I love you. I love recommending incredible films. "Gaslight" is not one of them. Or is it?
Are Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman completely convincing in incredible roles?
Does Angela Lansbury make one of the greatest acting debuts of all time?
Will the writing, directing, and cinematography come together to create a tense, moody, atmospheric classic?
Is "Gaslight" even more relevant today than it was back in 1944?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 19, 2025 1:00 AM |
Barbara Stanwyck got robbed for DOUBLE INDEMNITY. Love Ingrid but I said what I said 😑
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 19, 2025 1:07 AM |
Dame May Whitty was a dame when it meant something
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 19, 2025 1:38 AM |
Great film
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 19, 2025 4:10 AM |
Bergman overplays it. Lansbury is perfect.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 19, 2025 4:20 AM |
When they were doing repairs backstage while filming, Bergman had to share a dressing room with Lansbury briefly, according to Boyer, Ingrid came out of the dressing room one day right after Angela had left and said, 'Now I know where the gas in gas light is coming from! Pee-you!' and held her nose and gestured toward Lansbury.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 19, 2025 6:12 AM |
It was disconcerting to see it later in life and learn that the gaslight was not being deliberately used in the campaign to send Bergman's character round the twist, but was the main clue to the truth.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 19, 2025 10:24 AM |
A classic
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