Gaslight

6/9/2019

I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to her. Gaslight is directed by George Cukor and is adapted to screenplay from Patrick Hamilton’s play by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston. It stars Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton, May Whitty, Barbara Everest and Angela Lansbury. Music is by Bronislaw Kaper and cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg. Years after her aunt was murdered in her London home, Paula Alquist Anton (Bergman) moves back there with her new husband, Gregory Anton (Boyer). However, what at first seems to be an idyllic marriage begins to crumble as Paula appears to be losing her mind… You really have to put into context just how great Gaslight is as per the time it was released. For it holds up now as something of a t

10/5/2026

When her Thespian aunt is found murdered in her exclusive London home, "Paula" (Ingrid Bergman) is relocated to Italy where she is to focus on her musical studies. That's where she meets the charming pianist "Gregory" (Charles Boyer) with whom she falls in love. After they marry, they decide to return to the UK and live in her aunt's former home. Their initial marital bliss doesn't last, though, as "Gregory" starts to wonder about his wife's mental health. She becomes forgetful, she loses things, she becomes obsessed with the flickering gas lamps on the wall. He decides that she ought to be shielded from the outside world - and that includes kindly neighbour "Miss Thwaites" (Dame May Whitty). This isolation also manages to raise the suspicions of "Cameron" (Joseph Cotton) who is aware of t