Pianist husband Gregory (Charles Boyer) after a two-week romance in Italy. Singer Paula Anton (Ingrid Bergman) and her Gaslight's source story has another claim to fame, but only if you're interested in word origins.ĭuring this gripping and well-acted production, which explores the tumultuous marriage shared by Powerful figures are capable of monstrous bullying tactics. Up mirroring the film itself: if left unchecked, MGM obviously loosened its stance in later decades), this brazen level of manipulation and control ends Prints were thankfully made in secret (and Thorold Dickinson's excellent 1940 BritishĪdaptation was swept under the rug by MGMĪfter they snapped up the remake rights, which included a strict clause that all existing prints be destroyed, as well as its original camera negative. Wanted 1944 audiences to know anything about the first one. Reviewed by Randy Miller III, July 2, 2019ĭirector George Cukor's Gaslight is the second adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play of the same This Blu-ray bundle includes the following DVD titles, see individual titles for specs and details: Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest Writers: John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. However, he has a secret which he will do anything to protect.įor more about Gaslight and the Gaslight Blu-ray release, see Gaslight Blu-ray Review published by Randy Miller III on Jwhere this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5. They take up residence in her aunt's house, which she has inherited. Ten years later, Paula returns to London with her new husband. Police fail to find the killer and Paula is sent away to school. Paula, who lives with her aunt finds the body. Paula's aunt Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. When Scotland Yard Police Constable Brian Cameron ( Joseph Cotten) sees Gregory and Alice in a place popular with tourists, he immediately he sees Paula, who reminds him of her aunt, but he does not know Gregory, and decides to investigate and find evidence to connect Gregory with the unsolved murder, while Paula is being driven insane and menaced by her husband.Gaslight Blu-ray delivers stunning video and great audio in this excellent Blu-ray release He psychologically begins to torture Paula, and she has a nervous breakdown, and also has insecurity and memory problems. When they arrive, Paula finds a letter from a mysterious and unknown Sergis Bauer, which makes Gregory upset. Ten years later, Paula ( Ingrid Bergman) decides to get married with an older pianist named Gregory Anton ( Charles Boyer), who convinces her to move back to the old address in London. Her young niece Paula Alquist ( Terry Moore) is sent to Italy to study music, and the house stays empty. In London, at 9 Thorton Square, prima donna Alice Alquist is strangled, and her famous jewels disappear. Those two are: Miss Thwaites ( May Whitty), an elderly busybody neighbor who loves a good mystery and Brian Cameron ( Joseph Cotten), a fan of Alice Alquist, and who, in his professional life, arguably knows the most about her murder besides the actual murderer. However, two people on the outside believe that funny things are happening behind the closed doors of 9 Thornton Square, where only the domestics, Elizabeth ( Barbara Everest) and Nancy, are allowed in, and only Gregory, who ever leaves by himself to take a walk every night. As such, she becomes isolated in the house, which only exacerbates her feeling that she indeed is going mad. Over time at the house, Paula begins to forget things, lose things, and imagine things - such as an animosity with the new Cockney housekeeper Nancy ( Angela Lansbury), who has a penchant for making "friends" with whatever Police Constable is patrolling the neighborhood - with Gregory quietly convincing her, without using the exact words, that she is ill. Not having thought about the house in a long time, Paula believes Anton's love can help her through whatever pain she may have felt about her aunt's murder now to live there with him. Before learning of her background, Gregory is able to convince her to live in London, then when she divulges to him that she owns a house there at 9 Thornton Square, it bequeathed to her by her famous maternal aunt, opera singer Alice Alquist, who raised Paula and whom Paula found murdered in the house, the murder never solved. Paula Alquist ( Ingrid Bergman), an aspiring opera singer, and Gregory Anton ( Charles Boyer), the accompanist at her singing lessons under the tutelage of Maestro Guardi ( Emil Rameau) in Italy, fall in love and get married.
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