Gaslight (1940)

★ 7.1 1h 24m IMDb

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.

Gaslight

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Cast

Anton Walbrook
Anton Walbrook as Paul Mallen (as Anton Wahlbrook) Died 1967 · Wien, Austria Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 1896 – 9 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germa...
Diana Wynyard
Diana Wynyard as Bella Mallen Died 1964 · London, England, UK Diana Wynyard, CBE  (16 January 1906 – 13 May 1964), whose birth name was Dorothy Isobel Cox, was an English stage and film actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Wynyard, licens...
Frank Pettingell
Frank Pettingell as B.G. Rough Died 1966 · Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Pettingell (1 January 1891 – 17 February 1966) was an English actor. Pettingell was born in Liverpool, and educated at Manchester University. During the...
Cathleen Cordell
Cathleen Cordell as Nancy the Parlour Maid Died 1997 · Brooklyn, New York, USA Cathleen Cordell (May 21, 1915 – August 19, 1997) was an American film and television actress. Cordell was born in Brooklyn, New York. Cordell moved to England and then France, in order to begin her...
Robert Newton
Robert Newton as Ullswater Died 1956 · Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, UK Robert Newton was one of the great character actors -- and great characters -- of the British cinema, best remembered today for playing Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1950) and its sequel in 195...
Jimmy Hanley
Jimmy Hanley as Cobb Died 1970 · Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jimmy Hanley (22 October 1918 – 13 January 1970) was a British actor. Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Hanley began his career as a child actor before becoming popula...

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CinemaSerf 7/10 Jun 23, 2022
I always feel that this version has been overshadowed by it's much higher profile 1944 iteration, but is actually every bit as good. A newly married couple move into their home on a Victorian Square and soon afterwards "Bella" (Diana Wynyard) starts to become absent minded, starts to misplace things, forget things. Her initially supportive husband "Paul" (Anton Walbrook) starts to lose patience with her and when she starts to imagine footsteps and flickering gas lamps he threatens to have her certified... Except, what's really going on? Is she what she seems - and, is he? The timely arrival of "Rough" (Frank Pettingell) starts to cause us all to question as he discovers that the husband may have a hidden, much more sinister, past! Thorold Dickinson does well with the pace of this tautly directly adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play; the performances - especially a menacing Walbrook - are tight and convincing and Richard Addinsell has created a score that perfectly matches the pace as the mystery heads to it's denouement.

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