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...Gaslight" is the film version of "Angel Street," now in its third year on the Broadway stage, and other critics have attacked "Gaslight" with an unfavorable contrast between play and movie. These attacks are not justified if the picture is considered on its own merits. Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten are every bit as effective as Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, and Leo G. Carroll. It is said that "Angel Street" held its suspense better by concentrating all of the action within an oppressive, plushy, Victorian house; but "Gaslight" achieves its suspense through typically Hollywood, yet very telling, means...
Almost unique for a period chiller is the simplicity of the plot: it's about a pianist (Boyer) who marries (Bergman) and, for the sake of a few diamonds, tries to drive his wife mad to get her put away and enable him to search her house for the coveted stones. Joseph Cotten is a hawkshaw from Scotland Yard who pulls the here act. Director George Cuckor carries the audience along with all the stages of deliberately produced insanity partly by keeping the plot moving and partly by knocking all of the "For Whom the Bell Tolls" freshness...
Gaslight (Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer; TIME...
Gaslight (Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Gotten; TIME...
Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) is so subtle with his -trustful bride (Ingrid Bergman), his motives are so far beyond anything she could imagine, that she falls an easy victim. Husband Anton has a genius for suggestive psychology. Stage by stage his wife loses her trust in her sanity. When she cannot find a brooch he gave her, it never occurs to her that he may have "lost" it for her. When she cannot recall some trifling matter, it never occurs to her that it may never have happened. When she remembers a certain letter which would give her husband...