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Gaslight (1940)
British psychological thriller.
Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton’s Gas Light (1938) – than does the 1944 MGM remake.
The original play, “Gas Light,” opened in London on 31 January 1939.
Final film of Marie Wright.
Self-help and popular psychology authors sometimes denominalize the film’s title (also known as “verbing”) and use it as a verb (“gaslighting”).
Gaslighting, in this context, refers to manipulating a person or a group of people, in a way similar to the way the protagonist in the play was manipulated
| Directed by | Thorold Dickinson |
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| Based on | Gas Light 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton |
| Produced by | John Corfield |
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| Cinematography | Bernard Knowles |
| Edited by | Sidney Cole |
| Music by | Richard Addinsell |
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British National Films
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| Distributed by | Anglo-American Film Corp. (United Kingdom) |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
