Gaslight

Gaslight (1944)

  • 89% of critics liked it
    (18 reviews)

  • 89% of users liked it
    (7,887 ratings)

Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel "women's picture" director George Cukor. Bergman stars as Paula Alquist, a late 19th century English singer studying music in Italy. However, Paula abandons her… More

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May 11, 1944 Limited
MGM

Critic Reviews

  • Josh Larsen, LarsenOnFilm

    Overwrought to contemporary eyes, perhaps, but still troubling and, in its own way, powerful.

  • Nell Minow, Common Sense Media

    Brilliant classic of mind-game suspense.

  • Steve Crum, Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

    Classic drama-horror with put upon Bergman and suavely evil Boyer.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Soaked in paranoia, Cukor's superb pyschological thriller is a period film noir, just like Hitchcock's The Lodger and Hanover Square, both set in the Edwardian age.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    A terrific atmospheric thriller.

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  • Universal D


    Remakes are often (and righteously) seen as the blight of the film industry but that is not the case here in this elegant reworking of a lean and muscular Brit classic. Hollywood's magic is in hard evidence with better writing, camera work, lighting and sound than the original.… More

  • Lewis C


    A very Hitchcockian thriller, if not close to the quality of the best movies by Hitchcock or his imitators. The plot (involving a woman who slowly seems to be losing her grip on reality...or is she?) probably was much more effective in 1944, now this kind of thing has been done so… More

  • AJ V


    Similar to other suspense movies of the forties, but still a pretty powerful story. I really like this movie.

  • Randy T


    A superb psychological thriller about a husband who is slowly driving his wife insane (yeah, that never happens...)

  • Devon B


    Ingrid Bergman is the victim of Charles Boyer's sadistic mindgames in 1944's "Gaslight", a gothic film noir set in turn-of-the-century London. Paula (Bergman) moves to Paris after finding her aunt, a famous singer, strangled to death in their home. While training… More

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