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.
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ISBN:0790745690 (v.r.)
Physical Description:1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher:Burbank, CA :Warner Home Video,[2004]
General Note:
Based on the play "Angel Street" by Patrick Hamilton.
American version originally released as a motion picture in 1944 ; British version originally released in 1940.
Widescreen format (aspect ratio 2.35:1).
Special features include (1944 version only): Reflections on Gaslight, hosted by Pia Lindstrom ; Oscars for movie stars ; theatrical trailer. Includes original 1940 British version (84 min.).
Formatted Contents Note:
Gaslight / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; producer, Arthur Hornblow, Jr. ; writers, John Van Druten and Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston ; director, George Cukor -- Gaslight (British, 1940 version) / British National Films, Ltd. ; producer, John Corfield ; writers, A.R. Rawlinson and Bridget Boland ; director, Thorold Dickinson.
Participant or Performer Note:
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest, Emil Rameau, Edmund Breon, Halliwell Hobbes.