DVD release of this newly remastered version of Thorold Dickinson's dark and menacing psychological 1940 classic. Based on Patrick Hamilton's celebrated stage play, Gaslight is a harrowing and claustrophobic film about domestic fear. Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes) stars as the terrifying husband who puts the sanity of his fragile and tortured wife (Diana Wynyard) under siege. The success of Gaslight on stage and film encouraged Hollywood studio MGM to buy the remake rights in the early 1940s, with a clause insisting that all existing... prints of Dickinson's British version be destroyed. Unseen for many decades, this definitive version has been digitally restored by the BFI. Contents: Spanish A B C (Thorold Dickinson and Sidney Cole, 1938, 20 mins) Behind the Spanish Lines (Sidney Cole and Thorold Dickinson, 1938, 20 mins) Westward Ho! (Thorold Dickinson, 1940, 9 mins): short film to promote the evacuation of urban children to rural areas. Miss Grant Goes to the Door (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1940 7 mins): short film about a German invasion Yesterday is Over Your Shoulder (Thorold Dickinson, 1940, 9 mins): short film encouraging unskilled workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes. Original promotional materials and documents from the BFI National Archive (downloadable PDF) [show more]
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Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard star in this classic British thriller based on Patrick Hamilton's play. After Alice Barlow (Marie Wright) is murdered in her own home by a thief seeking her priceless jewels the house lays empty for 20 years until the arrival of newly-weds Paul and Bella Mallen (Walbrook and Wynyard). Although he tries to divert his wife's attention away from his suspicious behaviour by convincing her she's going mad, Paul uses gaslights to search the house's closed upper floors for Alice's hidden jewels during the night. As B.G. Rough (Frank Pettingell), a detective from the original, unsolved murder case, becomes increasingly suspicious of Paul, he suspects him of hiding a sinister past identity...
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on Patrick Hamilton's celebrated stage play, Thorold Dickinson's (The Queen of Spades, The Next of Kin) Gaslight is a harrowing and claustrophobic study of murder, abuse and lust in Victorian London. By turns charming and cruel, Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) excels as the sadistic husband who attempts to drive his wife (Diana Mynyard) mad to prevent her from disclosing his dark past. This release is one of the great British psychological thrillers is accompanied by a number of Dickinson's short documentary films. Actors: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard Directors: Thorold Dickinson Language: English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English Number of discs: 1
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