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   Gaslight (1944 film)   
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   Gaslight   
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   Directed by	George Cukor   
   Produced by	Arthur Hornblow Jr.   
   Screenplay by	John Van Druten   
   Walter Reisch   
   John L. Balderston   
   Based on	Gas Light   
   1938 play    
   by Patrick Hamilton   
   Starring	Charles Boyer   
   Ingrid Bergman   
   Joseph Cotten   
   Dame May Whitty   
   Angela Lansbury   
   Music by	Bronisław Kaper   
   Cinematography	Joseph Ruttenberg   
   Edited by	Ralph E. Winters   
   Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer   
   Release dates   
   May 4, 1944   
   Running time   
   114 minutes   
   Country	United States   
   Language	English   
   Budget	$2,068,000[1]   
   Box office	$4,613,000[1]   
   Gaslight is an American 1944 mystery-thriller film, adapted from Patrick   
   Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light, about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates   
   her into believing that she is going insane.   
      
   The 1944 version was the second version to be filmed, following the British   
   film Gaslight, directed by Thorold Dickinson and released in 1940. This 1944   
   version was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles   
   Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and 18-   
   year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. Gaslight had a larger scale and   
   budget than the earlier film, and lends a different feel to the material. To   
   avoid confusion with the first film, this version was originally given the   
   title The Murder in    
   Thornton Square in the UK.[2]   
      
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   1	Plot   
   2	Cast   
   3	Production   
   4	Gaslight as expression   
   5	Reception   
   5.1	Box office   
   5.2	Critical response   
   5.3	Noir analysis   
   5.4	Accolades   
   6	See also   
   7	References   
   8	External links   
   Plot   
      
   World-famous opera singer Alice Alquist has just been murdered. The   
   perpetrator bolted, without the jewels he sought, after being interrupted by a   
   child—Paula (Terry Moore)—Alice's niece, who was raised by her aunt   
   following Paula's own mother's    
   death years earlier.   
      
   Paula is sent to Italy so that she can train to be an opera star with the same   
   teacher who once trained Alice. Paula studies with him for years, all the   
   while trying to forget that terrible night at Number 9 Thornton Square in   
   London, England.   
      
   Now an adult, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) meets Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer), and   
   soon falls in love with him. Paula eventually ends her long tutelage to marry   
   him. Gregory persuades her that they should live in the long-vacant London   
   townhouse her aunt    
   bequeathed her and, to help calm her anxieties, suggests they store all of   
   Alice's furnishings in the attic. Before they do, Paula discovers a letter   
   addressed to her aunt by a man named Sergius Bauer, dated only two days before   
   the murder, tucked away    
   in a music book. Gregory's reaction is swift and violent; however, he quickly   
   composes himself, explaining his outburst as one of frustration at the bad   
   memories his bride is experiencing.   
      
   After Alice's belongings are packed away in the attic and the door blocked,   
   events take a turn for the bizarre. At the Tower of London, Paula loses a   
   brooch that Gregory had given her, despite its having been stored safely in   
   her handbag. A picture    
   disappears from the walls of the house, and Gregory says that Paula took it,   
   but Paula has no recollection of having done so. Paula also hears footsteps   
   coming from above her in the sealed attic, and sees the gaslights dim and   
   brighten for no apparent    
   reason. Gregory suggests that these are all figments of Paula's imagination.   
      
      
   Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight. She has discovered a letter.   
   Gregory does everything in his power to isolate his wife from other people.   
   Gregory allows her neither to go out nor to have visitors, implying that he is   
   doing so for her own good, because her nerves have been acting up, causing her   
   to become a    
   kleptomaniac, and to imagine things that are not real. On the one occasion   
   when Gregory does take her out to a musical gathering at a friend's house, he   
   shows Paula his watch chain, from which his watch has mysteriously   
   disappeared. When Gregory finds it    
   in her handbag, Paula becomes hysterical, and he takes her home. Paula begins   
   to believe she should not go out in public.   
      
   The young maid, Nancy (Angela Lansbury), does little to improve the situation.   
   Whenever she shows up, her face betrays a feeling of disdain; Paula becomes   
   convinced that Nancy loathes her.   
      
   Unknown to Paula, her husband is in fact Sergius Bauer, her aunt's murderer.   
   He sought out Paula in Italy, managed to win her heart, married her, and   
   suggested they live in London, all with the aim of getting back into the house   
   to continue searching for    
   Alice's jewels. He has been secretly rummaging through Alice's belongings in   
   the attic to find the jewels he is certain are there. The footsteps Paula   
   hears in the attic are thus his, and the flickering gaslights he claims she   
   has imagined are in reality    
   caused by him turning the attic lights on, reducing the flow of gas to the   
   downstairs lights.   
      
   Gregory does everything in his power to convince his wife that she is going   
   mad. If she were certified insane and institutionalized, he could search   
   without impediment for the jewels. The plan almost works. Paula is saved by   
   her trip to the Tower of    
   London—although this visit was the catalyst that enabled Gregory to cement   
   his control over her, it also led to a chance encounter with Inspector Brian   
   Cameron of Scotland Yard (Joseph Cotten), an admirer of Alice Alquist since   
   his childhood. Seeing    
   Paula, whose resemblance to her aunt catches his attention, rekindles   
   Cameron's interest in the cold case, an interest that is heightened when he   
   learns that Alquist was in possession of valuable jewels that were never   
   found. Cameron was also present at    
   the aforementioned musical gathering, and thus witnessed Gregory's strange   
   behavior from an independent perspective. With the aid of the police constable   
   on the beat, Cameron figures out that Gregory slips into a vacant house on the   
   same street, goes on    
   to the roof, and enters his own attic via a skylight. Cameron eventually   
   manages to get inside the house and see Paula while Gregory is in the attic.   
   Her sanity is quickly restored when he confirms that the gaslights are indeed   
   flickering and she    
   discovers the letter from Bauer that Gregory had told her was a figment of her   
   imagination. On that same evening, Gregory at last discovers the jewels he has   
   sought for so long: hidden in plain sight, disguised as costume jewelry.   
   However, when he comes    
   down, Cameron accosts him and with the help of the constable arrests him and   
   ties him up.   
      
      
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