Gaslight (1944)

Excelente película

Excelente película. Brillantes actuaciones de Boyer, Bergman, Lansbury, Cotten y Whitty. Bergman ganó un merecido Oscar a mejor actriz, pero la actuación de Boyer es sencillamente sobresaliente; encarna con maestría a un villano doméstico pero peligroso, dominante pero atribulado, calculador y arriesgado, a la vez. Una expresión realista de la mezquindad humana.
El DVD contiene la versión original y también excelente de 1940.
Efraín. June 5, 2008

Perfect Suspense Story

My family enjoyed this nail-biting drama about a husband trying to make his wife think she is going mad. Charles Boyet is wonderful as the 'bad guy' and Ingrid Bergman is very young and plays the perfect wife. I love this story and never fail to be drawn into the drama being played out on the screen, no matter how many times I watch it. I highly recommend this to all movie buffs that like Ingrid Berman and films that the whole family can sit down and enjoy together. June 1, 2008

Gaslight

This is one of our favorite Ingrid Bergman movies. We watch it every so often when there is nothing on TV. It is a shame that movies today are not made more like the old classic movies. The movies today are nothing but sex and bad language. April 10, 2008

Been wanting to watch this for a long time...

I have passed by this movie many times in the library, and finally decided to pick it up. I was glad that I did! It satisfied my need for something subtle and suspenseful.

Paula was living in London with her aunt, a famous singer/actress, Alice. Her aunt was violently killed and Paula was traumatized. So she fled, as her aunt was the only parent known to her. While she is trying to become a singer herself, she falls in love with the piano player after only having known him for two weeks. After lots of pressure, Gregory pursuades Paula to move back to her house, the one her aunt died in. After all, it was left to her.

It is then that Paula seems to change from an active, full of life woman, to someone who is ill, isolated, and depressed. Every night, she hears footsteps in the attic, (no one else does, especially the half-deaf cook)and the gaslight appears to go down, when no one in the house is touching another. Her husband is also not the same man she married. The maid and the cook don't understand what is wrong with her. She doesn't have anyone to turn to, and slowly goes mad. But, why?

Though you realize pretty early what will happen at the end and who the killer is, it doesn't ruin the movie for you. The acting is excellent, especially by Nancy (played by an adorable 18 year old Angela Lansbury) the sardonic, and slightly tarty maid.

Though there are many times when I have to be "in the mood" for old movies, but I don't know why...because every time I see one, I am pleasantly surprised! Recommended! March 24, 2008

Darkly Entertaining

This lovely black and white film with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten and if you'll notice a very young Angela Lansbury as their maid.
It's suspenseful,exciting and filmed gorgeously.
The tittle comes from the mysterious gas lights which keep dimming and lighting and mentally threaten Ingrid Bergman's character of a newlywed believing she's ready for a nervous breakdown.
Very entertaining and doesn't lose it's magic after all these years. January 10, 2008

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