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	Gaslight (1944)
		Gaslight (1944) (aka The Murder in Thornton Square) is a superb, definitive psychological suspense thriller from 'woman's director' George Cukor.
		The phrase "to gaslight" someone (to deliberately drive someone insane by psychologically manipulating their environment and tricking someone into believing that they are insane), was derived from the film.
		The film's impressive photography is expressionistic, shadowy, and menacing - as befits the film's ominous plot.
	www.filmsite.org /gasl.html (2917 words)

	Gaslight (1944 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaslight is a 1944 film, considered film noir, directed by George Cukor starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.
		The makers of this film attempted to have all copies of the 1940 version destroyed, but they were unsuccessful as copies of the older version have survived and critics are divided as to which is actually the better film.
		The term "to gaslight someone" – to make someone think he or she is going insane – derives from the titles and subject matter of these two films.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film) (1274 words)

	Gaslight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The first, from 1940, is director Thorold Dickinson's English version starring Diana Wynyard as the retiring young wife and Anton Walbrook as the husband who is trying to drive her insane.
		Given MGM's attempt to suppress (even destroy) the 1940 film, having both on one disc is a wonderful historical treat, and makes this disc an excellent companion piece to the recent Dr. All the extras are on Side B (with the 1940 film).
		GASLIGHT is a first-rate psychological suspense thriller which features the passionate Academy Award-winning performance of Ingrid Bergman in the role of Paula Alquist Anton, a young, fragile wife who is slowly being manipulated into a state of near-insanity by her sinister new husband Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer).
	www.amarillometro.com /shopping/gaslight_B00011D1PE.html (2335 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Gaslight
		Gaslight is certainly the exception to that distinction, and nobody would characterize it as a poster child for women's lib.
		What the film does retain is the magnificent screen presence of its leading lady and the cast that surrounds her, as well as its ability to create a mood and atmosphere that remains as effective as ever.
		The original film is also a bit tighter, and gets moving a bit quicker than the more leisurely-paced remake and as a result, ends up running about a half hour shorter (84 minutes as opposed to 113 minutes).
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/gaslight.php (1517 words)

	Academy Awards Best Picture
		Films inspired by real-life individuals (especially when they face adversity) usually do very well in terms of nominations, and often win - especially if they are of epic proportion.
		Rebecca (1940) (thriller), Suspicion (1941) (thriller), Gaslight (1944) (thriller), Spellbound (1945) (thriller), and The Sixth Sense (1999) (horror).
		These are G-rated films specifically made for young kids (they are often appropriate for families and adults too).
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	Film \| Almost famous
		As far as I know, that was the first significant appointment in film at a British university, and it seems to have marked an end to Dickinson's expectations as a film-maker.
		There are other Dickinson films a lot less successful than Gaslight, but proof of his grasp of raw entertainment values: The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939) is as hokey as can be, but Dickinson relishes the material, just as he seemed excited to be filming the great Arsenal team of Bastin, Drake and Hapgood.
		The Dickinson film over which there is agreement is The Queen of Spades, adapted from a Pushkin novella about a man who becomes a killer in his attempt to discover the secret of winning at cards.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4791348-3181,00.html (1261 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Gaslight at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The 1940 film script has more of the feel of a "psychological thriller" while the 1944 film is closer to "psychodrama." On the other hand, the script for the 1944 film provides more "star moments" where one or the other of the high-visibility romantic leads can shine.
		By contrast, the 1944 film substitutes a handsome young Scotland Yard agent (Brian Cameron, played by Joseph Cotton) as the "rescuer." In the 1940 film, Bella, in the end, asserts her independence, breaks free from Paul's influence, and becomes, symbolically, a liberated woman.
		The 1944 MGM films attempts to establish the positive relationship first with a half-hour opening segment, but Boyer is so transparently ingratiating that I immediately recognized that he was going to be the villain (I saw the 1944 version first, and did not know from prior exposure to the story that he was the villain).
	www.epinions.com /content_190748724868 (2177 words)

	Gaslight DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		The second is the famous one, directed in Hollywood by George Cukor in 1944, starring Ingrid Bergman (she won an Oscar for this one) and Charles Boyer.
		The 1944 version is the most high-profile version, and has the Big Name Cast: Ingrid Bergman as the wife (a role for which she won her first Oscar), Charles Boyer as the husband, Joseph Cotten as the suspicious investigator, and a debuting, 18- year-old Angela Lansbury as the saucy maid.
		All the extras are on Side B (with the 1940 film).
	www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B00011D1PE (793 words)

	Gaslight [1940] - Review @ EOFFTV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Dickinson was an inspired choice - shooting the film in continuity, a rarer event then even than now, he displayed a technique that was remarkable for a British film of the period.
		And they were rewarded handsomely when the film went on to enjoy great success with a war torn British public eager for just this kind of high class escapism.
		Dickinson's film fell victim to corporate politics when MGM acquired the rights to the play and, perhaps fearing that any future re-release would show up their version for the lavish but dull movie that it undoubtedly is, attempted to suppress the film, allegedly destroying all existing prints.
	www.eofftv.com /review/g/gaslight_1940_review.htm (707 words)

	Film in Wartime
		The Film Division, in the early War years, was headed by the Conservative Joseph Ball, who was reluctant to bring in the pre-War documentary film makers because of suspicion about their political allegiances.
		Whereas pre-War documentary films had been invariably tied to sponsors such as the GPO or the Gas Board (which meant that potentially radical subject matter had to be toned down), the war freed him.
		Throughout the 1930s the British Board of Film Censors had exerted strict moral and political censorship of British films, and this influence was supplemented in wartime by the influence of the Ministry of Information.
	www.newi.ac.uk /rdover/medcult/Wartime.htm (1307 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- GASLIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		While the presentation of the British GASLIGHT isn’t quite as clean and free from signs of age as the later version, it is still in good condition and the transfer provides very little to complain about.
		Also included on the DVD is Reflections On Gaslight, a thirteen-minute program with Bergman's daughter, Pia Lindstrom and Angela Lansbury, who discuss the film and its legendary leading lady.
		GASLIGHT is another film classic that has been given a terrific presentation on DVD by the fine folks at Warner Home Video.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_2004/gaslight-dvd.htm (666 words)

	FILM NOIR GUIDE
		Each film is presented in the context of a series of factoids (title, date, whodunit), useful categorizations (i.e., greed, wrong man, ambition), a review, familiar faces (i.e., if the actors worked in television), and a memorable noir moment (e.g., “…it’s just a flesh wound”).
		Film Noir Guide also offers a very unique feature: with each film, Michael has included a section on "Familiar Faces from Television," which identifies noir character actors that later went on to fame in television, and "Memorable Noir Moments," which points out the most noirish scenes and dialogue in a film.
		Second, I have read too many film noir books written in the "scholarly" style that, frankly, bored and confused the heck out of me. If writing with "profundity" means causing readers to struggle with a paragraph and still scratch their heads over its intended meaning, I'll stick to the colloquial and popular approach.
	members.cox.net /mike_keaney/guide.htm (3145 words)

	Warner Bros. Refills Gaslight - ComingSoon.net
		Based on a 1938 British play by Patrick Hamilton and preceded by a 1940 British film, the MGM classic starred Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman and garnered seven Oscar nominations, including a win for Bergman.
		It also introduced the film's title into the vernacular, as the act of "gaslighting" someone means to drive them insane.
		The film revolves around a woman whose suitor has designs on her money, and after luring her to a house of horrors, he methodically tries to convince her she is insane.
	comingsoon.net /news/movienews.php?id=12893 (200 words)

	Gaslight (1940) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Trivia: When later remade as Gaslight (1944) with Charles Boyer and 'Ingrid Bergman', the studio attempted to have all prints of this earlier version destroyed.
		I will not fall into this trap - I liked each film as much as the other..true, Walbrook looks more evil as a villain than Charles BOyer, and the 1940 version is perhaps a little more picturesque with the sets (carriages, children etc) but both films were very well done.
		The picture quality of the 1944 version is obviously better than that of 1940, and I had read somewhere that they had actually tried to get the print of the 1940 version destroyed as to have only the 1944 version available.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0031359 (352 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Gaslight (1944)
		She has a luminous glow through much of the film and the camera clearly sympathizes with her plight.
		The title does so as well; while the gaslight is an important clue, it's also an enigmatic reminder of the insubstantial nature of perception.
		The theatrical trailer takes an interesting tack, providing clips of the film out of context to constitute pseudo-spoilers: one seeing the trailer might think that he knows what is happening, but would instead by completely misled.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=5670 (970 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Gaslight
		It's surprising to note that when Casablanca, now considered by many to be the greatest film ever made, took home three Oscars in 1943, its romantic leads, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, left empty-handed (Bergman wasn't even nominated).
		Every touch is just right -- from the titular gaslights, which flicker eerily in the darkness, to the intensely cramped Victorian-era London house that Paula and Gregory occupy.
		Extras-wise, there's not much here, save for one doozy -- Warner has seen fit to include the 1940 original version of the film, directed by Thorold Dickinson, on Side B of the flipper disc.
	www.dvdverdict.com /printer/gaslight.php (1501 words)

	Gaslight - Movie Review
		Although the viewer is quite aware of the sinister underpinnings behind Gregory’s machinations, the manner in which he goes about tearing Paula down and slowly turning her into a neurotic mess has the sting of reality to it; the script is like a case-study for passive aggressive relationships.
		As a thriller, Gaslight works less well, as it spends too much time meandering about the outside of the story and never establishing a thoroughly claustrophobic atmosphere; one wonders what Hitchcock could have done with this material, how much tighter he would have wound the screws down.
		There are a few enjoyable extras, including a making-of documentary, and, most notably, the entire 1940 British film version of the play, starring Diana Wynyard, of which MGM reportedly tried to destroy all prints when the Cukor film was released.
	excite.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/gaslight (534 words)

	Gaslight [1940] @ EOFFTV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Bella Mallen is a Victorian wife who slowly comes to suspect that her husband Paul is trying to drive her mad in order to get at her inheritance.
		This version of Gaslight has been somewhat eclipsed, unfairly, by George Cukor's 1944 American version starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, thhough in many ways this earlier, cheaper and less star-studded version is actually preferable.
		Walbrook is the key to the film's success, his performance as the increasingly sinister and unpredictable Mallen being matched only by Wyngard whose portrayal of a woman struggling to cope when her model of the world and her place in it is slowly but surely turned inside out and Dickinson's direction is virtually flawless.
	www.eofftv.com /g/gas/gaslight_1940_main.htm (285 words)

	Gaslight : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Anton -- who is 16 years her senior (based on the ages of the actors portraying these characters; Bergman was 28 when she made the film; Boyer was 44) -- that Gregory had a conniving little scheme up his devious sleeve the whole time; a scheme to slowly but surely drive the new Mrs.
		I´m partial to the U.S. adaption of the film done four years later; but the 1940 variant has many die-hard supporters as well.
		"Gaslight" Trivia Notes -- The 1944 edition of "Gaslight" is also known as "Murder In Thornton Square", which was the title used for the film in the United Kingdom.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00011D1PE.html (2456 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Gaslight (1940 and 1944)
		This Gaslight begins with an old lady strangled in brutal close-up, and parallels the story inside the Mallen household with the improvised investigation of a retired detective, now a stablemaster (Frank Pettingell).
		Mallen goes nuts, or at least thinks she is, while haunted by eerie phenomena like strange noises and the dimming of the gaslight in her bedroom.
		Dickinson's Gaslight is a good example of an always-popular subgenre of thriller that Hitchcock himself returned to on occasion, as in Under Capricorn, also with Bergman.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1101gas.html (1953 words)

	UpcomingDiscs > DVD Reviews > by Genre > Suspense / Thriller
		The hiss is minimal on the ‘44 film, but is quite noticeable on the ‘40 version, particularly when there is no backing music.
		The later film isn’t perfect, with some flicer and speckling, but the image is much sharper.
		Given MGM’s attempt to suppress (even destroy) the 1940 film, having both on one disc is a wonderful historical treat, and makes this disc an excellent companion piece to the recent Dr.
	upcomingdiscs.com /dvd_review.php?load_this=gaslight&... (574 words)

	Gaslight Film Review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The first film version of Patrick Hamilton's stage play about a Victorian criminal who tries to drive his wife mad in order to prevent her from discovering his guilty secret while he searches their house for a stash of precious rubies.
		Lurking menace hangs in the air like a fog, the atmosphere is electric, and Wynyard suffers exquisitely as she struggles to keep dementia at bay.
		It's hardly surprising that MGM tried to destroy the negative of this version when they made their own five years later.
	www.timeout.com /film/70045.html (164 words)

	Amazon.com: Gaslight: DVD: George Cukor,Thorold Dickinson,Charles Boyer,Ingrid Bergman,Joseph Cotten,Dame May ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For years MGM actively supressed the older film giving rise to the legend that it was a far superior film.
		The relationship between Walbrook and Wynyard in the 1940 version is a well-played but two dimensional depiction of a tormentor and his victim.
		This is truly an awesome dvd, and it includes the 1940 British version of "Gaslight" as well as a documentary "Reflections on Gaslight", the original trailer, and footage of Ingrid Bergman accepting her best actress oscar at the 1944 Academy Awards ceremony!
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00011D1PE?v=glance (3083 words)

	The Official Ingrid Bergman Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The MGM classic, which was based on a 1938 British play by Patrick Hamilton and preceded by a 1940 British film, garnered seven Oscar nominations and two wins, which included Bergman’s first of three career Oscars.
		The title of the movie was derived from the reoccurrence of dimming and flickering gaslights.
		The phrase "to gaslight" someone, or to deliberately drive a person insane by psychologically manipulating their environment and tricking someone into believing that they are insane, was made everyday vernacular from this film.
	www.ingridbergman.com /viewheadline.php?id=3837 (197 words)

	CanMag- Movie News- Warner Bros to Relight the Gaslight
		Gaslight Remake Warming Up According to Variety, Warner Bros plans to do a remake of the 1944 thriller Gaslight with director Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice) making his U.S. directing debut.
		Based on a 1938 British play by Patrick Hamilton and preceded by a 1940 British film, Gaslight was able to grab seven Oscar nominations for MGM.
		The story of Gaslight revolves around a woman whose suitor has designs on her money, and after luring her to a house of horrors, he methodically tries to convince her she is insane.
	www.canmag.com /news/4/3/2951 (266 words)

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	Film Noir - Kolossal a confronto
		Oggi il film nero, incline ai più svariati generi, è principalmente un atto d'omaggio al passato, con vere e proprie riproposizioni - specialmente attraverso remake e sequel - che non un originale modello cinematografico.
		Questa sezione offre, naturalmente, grande spazio al decennio 1940, quello che ha dato maggior lustro al film noir, con circa 250 schede.
		Quindi, tanto per rimanere nel tema del "confronto", che è poi l'unità guida del sito, si è pensato di inserire anche i titoli dei film, prodotti dal 1930 ad oggi; purché i loro requisiti siano in attinenza a questa categoria.
	www.cinekolossal.com /noir (1293 words)

	Joe Wright Rekindles The "Gaslight" (January 26th, 2006)
		Abi Morgan will pen the script which is based on a 1938 British play by Patrick Hamilton and preceded by a 1940 British film.
		Pic revolves around a woman whose suitor has designs on her money, and after luring her to a house of horrors, he methodically tries to convince her she is insane.
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