Gaslight

Resource Information

The work Gaslight represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Green Lake Public Library (Caestecker). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Gaslight

Statement of responsibility

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; producer, Arthur Hornblow, Jr. ; writers, John Van Druten and Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston ; director, George Cukor. British (1940) version: British National Films, Ltd. ; producer, John Corfield ; writers, A.R. Rawlinson and Bridget Boland ; director, Thorold Dickinson

Title variation

Gas light

Contributor

• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Dickinson, Thorold
• Hamilton, Patrick, 1904 March 17-1962
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Hornblow, Arthur, 1893-1976
• British National Films, Ltd
• Hornblow, Arthur, Jr., 1893-1976
• Lansbury, Angela, 1925-
• Wynyard, Diana, 1906-1964
• Rawlinson, A. R.
• Reisch, Walter
• Van Druten, John, 1901-1957
• Whitty, May, Dame, 1865-1948
• Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978
• Boland, Bridget
• Corfield, John, 1893-1953
• Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982
• Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994
• Cukor, George, 1899-1983
• Balderston, John L., (John Lloyd), 1889-1954

Actor

• Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982
• Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978
• Wynyard, Diana, 1906-1964
• Whitty, May, Dame, 1865-1948
• Lansbury, Angela, 1925-
• Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994

Film director

• Dickinson, Thorold
• Cukor, George, 1899-1983

Producer

• Corfield, John, 1893-1953
• Hornblow, Arthur, Jr., 1893-1976
• Hornblow, Arthur, 1893-1976

Screenwriter

• Van Druten, John, 1901-1957
• Balderston, John L., (John Lloyd), 1889-1954
• Boland, Bridget
• Rawlinson, A. R.
• Reisch, Walter

Subject

• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Detective and mystery films
• Academy Award winner - best actress
• Spousal abuse
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Gas light fixtures
• Husband and wife

Genre

• Film adaptations
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Detective and mystery films

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

• Paula Anton (Bella Mallen, 1940 version) is a beautiful and trusting 19th century woman who is slowly being tormented by mysterious happenings in her luxurious Victorian home. The suspect is her devoted husband. But viewing the world through the dim glow of the gaslight, it is difficult to tell what is real and what is imagined
• A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in their London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity

Related

• Gaslight (Motion picture : 1940)

Awards note

Academy Awards, 1945: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ingrid Bergman); Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. Golden Globes, 1945: Best Motion Picture Actress (Ingrid Bergman).

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Cinematographer, Joseph Ruttenberg ; art director, Cedric Gibbons ; editor, Ralph E. Winters ; music, Bronislau Kaper ; costume designer, Irene ; special effects, Warren Newcombe. British version: cinematographer, Bernard Knowles ; editor, Sidney Cole ; music, Richard Addinsell

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: Not rated
• Not rated

Language note

English or French dialogue; English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes. British version: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard

Runtime

114

Target audience

general

Technique

live action