e108 Gaslight (1944 fim) - Wikipedia WIKIPEDIA Gaslight (1944 film) Gaslight is an American 1944 mystery-thriller film, adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light, about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Screenplay; it also won the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Production Design. The 1944 version was the second version to be filmed, following the British film Gaslight, directed by Thorold Dickinson and released in 1940. This 1944 version was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in an Oscar- nominated sereen debut (Supporting Actress). Gaslight had a larger seale and budget than the earlier film, and lends a different feel to the material. To avoid confusion with the first film, this version was originally given the title The Murder in Thornton Square in the UK.2! This film features numerous deviations from the original stage play, though the central drama of a husband trying to drive his wife insane in order to distract her from his criminal activities remains, Contents Plot Cast Production Gat Reception Box office Critical response Noir analysis Accolades ht as expression See also References External links Plot World-famous opera singer Alice Alquist has just been murdered. The perpetrator bolted, without the jewels he sought, after being interrupted by Alice's fourteen year old niece, Paula, who was raised by her aunt following hitpsion wikipedia orgwikiGasigh_(1844_flm) Gaslight Theatrical Directed by Produced by ‘Screenplay by Based on Starring Music by release poster George Cukor Arthur Hornblow Jr. John Van Druten Walter Reisch John L, Balderston Gas Light 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton Charles Boyer Ingrid Bergman Joseph Cotten Dame May Whitty Angela Lansbury Bronistaw Kaper 18e108 Gaslight (1944 fim) - Wikipedia Paula's own mother's death years earlier. Cinematography Joseph Ruttenberg Paula is sent to Italy so that she can train to be an opera star with the same teacher who once trained Alice. Paula studies with him for years, all the while | Edited by Ralph E. tying to forget that terrible night at Number 9 Thornton Square in London. Winters Distributed by Metro- Now an adult, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) meets Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer), Goldwyn- and, in the course of a two-week-long whirlwind romance, falls in love with Mayer him and they quickly mary Paula ends herlong tutelage t marryhim, and Retease date May 4, 1944 persuades her to leave the society and friends she knows to return to London, where she knows no one, to live inthe long-vaeant London townhouse her aunt, bequeathed her. To help calm her anxieties, Gregory suggests they store all of Running time 114 minutes Alice's furnishings in the attic. Before they do, Paula discovers a letter Country United States addressed to her aunt by a man named Sergius Bauer, dated only two days | Language English before the murder, tucked away in a music book. Gregory's reaction is swift Budget $2,068,000!" and violent; however, he quickly composes himself, explaining his outburst as s4ara.o00tt one of frustration at the bad memories his bride is experiencing, After Alice's belongings are packed away in the attic and the door blocked, events take a turn for the bizarre. At the Tower of London, Paula loses an heirloom brooch that Gregory had given her, despite its having been stored safely in her handbag. A picture disappears from the walls of the house; and Gregory says that Paula took it, one of many instances of, her removing and hiding it; but Paula has no recollection of having done so, Paula also hears footsteps coming from above her in the sealed attic, and sees the gaslights dim and brighten for no apparent reason. Gregory suggests that these are all figments of Paula’ imagination, Gregory does everything in his power to isolate his wife. Gregory allows her neither to go out nor to have visitors, implying that he is doing so for her own good, because her nerves have been acting up, causing her to become a kleptomaniac, and to imagine things that are not real. He is also jealous and accusatory whenever others express an interest in her. On the cone occasion when Gregory does take her out to a musical gathering at a friend's mysteriously disappeared. When Gregory finds it in her handbag, Paula becomes hysterical, and he takes her home. Paula begins to believe she should not go out in public. house, he shows Paula his watch chain, from which his watch has With Gregory looking on, Paula has discovered the letter from Sergius Bauer. The young maid, Nancy (Angela Lansbury), does little to improve the situation. Whenever Paula shows up, Nancy's face betrays a feeling of disdain; Paula becomes convinced that Nancy loathes her. Gregory secretly flirts with the maid and tells Paula she is paranoid and is imagining the maid's disdain, Paula does not know that her husband is in fact Sergius Bauer, her aunt's murderer. He sought out Paula in Italy, won her heart, married her, and suggested they live in London, all with the aim of getting back into the house to continue searching for Alice's jewels. He has been secretly rummaging through Alice's belongings in the attic to find the jewels he is certain are there. The footsteps Paula hears in the attic are actually his. The flickering gaslights he claims she has imagined are in fact caused by his turning the attic lights on, thus reducing the flow of gas to the downstairs lights. The kleptomania exhibited by Paula is all a sleight-of-hand ruse perpetrated by Gregory. hitpsion wikipedia orgwikiGasigh_(1844_flm) 26sri120%8 Gaslight (1944 fim) - Wikipedia Gregory does everything in his power to convince his wife that she is going mad, hoping to have her certified as insane and then institutionalized, thus allowing him to continue his search for the jewels without impediment. The plan almost works. Paula is saved by her trip to the Tower of London. Although the visit is the catalyst that enables Gregory to cement his control over her, it also leads to a chance encounter with Inspector Brian Cameron of Scotland Yard (Joseph Cotten), an admirer of Alice Alquist since his childhood. Seeing Paula, whose resemblance to her aunt catches his attention, rekindles Cameron's interest in the cold case, an interest that is heightened when he learns that Alquist was in possession of valuable jewels that were never found. That had been kept from the public at the request of a certain royal personage. Cameron was also present at the aforementioned musical gathering and perceived Gregory's strange behavior with a discerning eye. With the aid of the police constable on the beat, Cameron figures out that Gregory slips into a vacant house on the same street, proceeds to the roof, and enters his own attic via a skylight. Cameron eventually manages to get inside the house to see Paula while Gregory is in the attic. Her sanity is quickly restored when he confirms that the gaslights are indeed flickering, and she discovers the letter from Bauer that Gregory had told her was a figment of her imagination. That same evening, Gregory at last discovers the jewels hidden in plain sight, disguised as costume jewelry. However, Cameron accosts him, and with the help of the constable, arrests him. Paula indulges herself in a bit of revenge as she psychologically tortures Gregory, now bound to a chair, tantalizing him with the suggestion that she might free him so he can escape arrest, trial, and execution, before calling in Cameron to take him away. Cast = Charles Boyer as Gregory Anton/Sergius Bauer Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist Anton = Joseph Cotten as Brian Cameron = Dame May Whitty as Miss Bessie Thwaites = Angela Lansbury as Nancy Oliver = Barbara Everest as Elizabeth Tompkins = Emil Rameau as Maestro Guardi = Edmund Breon as General Huddleston, Brian's supervisor = Halliwell Hobbes as Mr. Muffin, Paula's lawyer = Tom Stevenson as PC Williams = Heather Thatcher as Lady Mildred Dalroy = Lawrence Grossmith (in his last film role) as Lord Freddie Dalroy = Jakob Gimpel as Pianist Uncredited Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in the final confrontation = Leonard Carey as Tour Guide in Tower of London = Alec Craig as Turnkey = Gibson Gowland as Servant 1 Jack Kirk as Cab Driver ' Terry Moore as Paula Alquist, age 14 = Syd Saylor as Baggage Clerk = Morgan Wallace as Fred Garrett Production Encouraged by the success of the play and the British 1940 film, MGM bought the remake rights, but with a clause insisting that all existing prints of the frst film be destroyed, even to the point of trying to destroy the negative 61 Evidently that order was not honored to the letter, since the 1940 Gaslight is still safely available for both theatrical and hitpsion wikipedia orgwikiGasigh_(1844_flm) 36e108 Gaslight (1944 fim) - Wikipedia TV exhibition, as well as DVD release. Gaslight as expression The psychological term gaslighting, which describes a form of psychological abuse in which the vietim is gradually ‘manipulated into doubting his or her own sanity, originated from the play and its two film adaptations 1 Reception Box office According to MGM records the film earned $2,263,000 in the US and Canada and $2,350,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $941,000.11 Critical response When Gaslight was first released, The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther praised the actors, He wrote, "And with ‘Mr. Boyer doing the driving in his best dead-pan hypnotic style, while the flames flicker strangely in the gas-jets and the mood music bongs with heavy threats, it is no wonder that Miss Bergman goes to pieces in a most distressing way. Both of these popular performers play their roles right to the hilt. Nice little personality vignettes are interestingly contributed, too, by Joseph Cotten as a stubborn detective, Dame May Whitty and Angela Lansbury as a maid." Noir analysis In 2006, film critic Emanuel Levy discussed the film noir aspects of the film: A thriller soaked in paranoia, Gaslight is a period films [sic] noir that, like Hitchcock's The Lodger and Hangover Square, is set in the Edwardian age. It’s interesting to speculate about the prominence of a film cycle in the 1940s that can be described as ‘Don't Trust Your Husband’. It began with three Hitchcock films: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941), and Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and continued with Gaslight and Jane Byre (both in 1944), Dragonwyck (1945), Notorious and The Spiral Staircase (both 1946), The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947), and Sorry, Wrong Number and Sleep, My Love (both 1948). All of these films use the noir visual vocabulary and share the same premise and narrative structure: The life of a rich, sheltered woman is threatened by an older, deranged man, often her husband. In all of them, the house, usually a symbol of sheltered security in Hollywood movies, becomes a trap of terror [9 Accolades itpsion wikipedia orgwikiGasight_(1844_flm) 48Gaslight (1944 fim) - Wikipedia Category Subject Result Best Picture Arthur Homblow Jr Nominated Best Actor in @ Leading Role Charles Boyer Nominated Best Actress na Leading Role Ingrid Bergman Wen Best Across ina Supporting Role Angela Lansbury Nominated Academy Awards{"01 ei cademy Award"! | 5.1 ying, Sreenlay Jenn L,Balerston, Waller Reich, nd Nominated Best Cinematography, Black-ané: Joseph Ruttenberg Nominated white Best Art Direction-Interior Wiliam Ferrari, Cedric Gibbons, Paul Won Decoration, Blackeand-White _ Huldschinsky, and Edwin B. Wiis Cannes Fim Cannes Grand Prize ofthe Festival George Cukor Nominated Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Golden Globe Award Best A Won Ingrid Bergman New York Film Best Actress Nominated Critics Circle Award See also = List of American films of 1944 = Gothic romance film = Gaslighting, a form of psychological manipulation References The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, C: ter for Motion Picture Study. 2, BBFC: The Murder in Thomton Square (hitp:/www,bbfc, co .ukireleases/murder-thomton-square) Linked 2014-03-08 3, "BEI Screenonline: Dickinson, Thorold (1903-1984) Biography” (http:/iwww.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/531286/). Screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-02-22 slight (1940)" (http:/Awww.tem.comitemdbititie/76014/GaslighVarticles. html) on TCM.com Home, Philip (2008-10-04). *Thorold Dickinson's 1949 film The Queen of Spades has been called ‘a masterpiece’ by Martin Scorsese — so why is his work not better known? | Film" (hilps://www.theguardian, comifilm/2008/ocUO4/art.film. thorolddickinson). London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-05-30. 6, Rush, Florence (February 1992). The best-kept secret: sexual abuse of children (https:/books.google.com/books?id= GXgDjnFL2xcC). Human Services Institute, p, 81, ISBN 978-0-8306-3907-6. Retrieved 16 June 2011. 7. Levy, Emanuel (hitp:/hwww.emanuellevy.com/review/gaslight-6/). Eman Accessed: July 24, 2013. 8, Crowther, Bosley (https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907E 6DE173DE03ABC4D53DF B366838F659ED E). The New York Times, film review, May 5, 1944, Accessed: July 24, 2013, 9. 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