Gaslight is a 1940 film based on Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light (1938). It was released in the United States under the title Angel Street so that audiences would not confuse it with MGM's 1944 version, though both had essentially the same plot. The 1944 cinema Gaslight was released in England under the title The Murder in Thornton Square.
This 1944 version of the story was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and eighteen-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. This remake had a larger scale and budget and lends a different feel to the material.
Gas Light the play was an immense hit on its release, and it remains one of the longest-running non-musicals in Broadway history. It remains a perennial favourite with both repertory and amateur theatre companies.
This 1944 version of the story was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and eighteen-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. This remake had a larger scale and budget and lends a different feel to the material.
Gas Light the play was an immense hit on its release, and it remains one of the longest-running non-musicals in Broadway history. It remains a perennial favourite with both repertory and amateur theatre companies.
From the film's title, "gaslighting" acquired the meaning of ruthlessly manipulating an individual, for nefarious reasons, into believing something other than the truth.
- Radio adaptation of Gaslight April 29, 1946 on Lux Radio Theatre; 44 minutes, with Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery (MP3)
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