Gaslight (1940)

Directed by

Thorold Dickinson

Genre

drama film, mystery film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 107 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman starts to doubt her own sanity after her husband slowly manipulates her by making subtle changes to their home and then denying them. A police detective becomes suspicious of the husband's intentions.

tenseclaustrophobicsuspensefulpsychologicalslow-burndarkunsettlingnervous

What happens

Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard and Frank Pettingell. It was written by A. R. Rawlinson and Bridget Boland. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton's Gas Light (1938) – than does the 1944 MGM remake. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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