Word: gaslighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victorian thrillers that Hollywood has tried its hand at--and there have been a lot of them--"Gaslight" is the first this reviewer can remember that doesn't falter, drag, or lose interest because of plot involvement or sheer length. Although it runs for 104 minutes, it is difficult to see where any of MGM's great amount of footage could...
...Gaslight (Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer; TIME...
...Gaslight (Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Gotten; TIME...
...Gaslight (M.G.M.) as a lush, lurid transcription of Patrick Hamilton's stage hit Angel Street (TIME, Dec. 15, 1941)-the story of a Victorian husband who systematically sets to work to drive his lovely young wife insane. Hollywood's husband is not quite so icily satanic, his wife not excruciatingly demoralized, as in the original. But as acted by Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and directed by George Cukor, Hollywood's ace manipulator of emotional actresses and lacy decor (Camille), Gaslight is still a fierce, hair-raising, handsome piece of psychological horror...
...Profile by Gaslight (Simon & Schuster: $2.75), edited by Edgar W. Smith, a collection of serious Holmesian studies and whimsies by 36 Holmes admirers, including the late Heywood Broun, Dorothy Sayers, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Rex Stout; The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Little, Brown: $2.50), edited by Ellery Queen, 33 Holmesian parodies by Doyle idolaters, from Mark Twain to Vincent Starrett; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Harcourt, Brace: $2), which reprints five famous Holmes stories, edited and copiously annotated by Christopher Morley...