Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 1944
Country: USA
Runtime: 114
Rating: 4.7 (0)
Languages: English
Director: George Cukor
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Strange drama of a captive sweetheart!

M-G-Ms melodrama

Writing by: Patrick Hamilton - (play "Gas Light")
John Van Druten - (screenplay) and
Walter Reisch - (screenplay) and
John L. Balderston - (screenplay)

Produced by: Arthur Hornblow Jr. - producer

Cast: Charles Boyer - Gregory Anton
Ingrid Bergman - Paula Alquist
Joseph Cotten - Brian Cameron
Dame May Whitty - Miss Bessie Thwaites
Angela Lansbury - Nancy Oliver
Barbara Everest - Elizabeth Tompkins
Emil Rameau - Maestro Mario Guardi
Edmund Breon - Gen. Huddleston
Halliwell Hobbes - Mr. Muffin
Tom Stevenson - Williams
Heather Thatcher - Lady Dalroy

Music: Bronislau Kaper
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Plot Outline: Paulas aunt Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. Paula, who lives with her aunt finds the body...
Plot: Paulas aunt Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. Paula, who lives with her aunt finds the body. Police fail to find the killer and Paula is sent away to school. Ten years later, Paula returns to London with her new husband. They take up residence in her aunts house, which she has inherited. Paula is increasingly isolated by her husband but does come to the attention of an admirerer of her aunt, Mr. Brian Cameron.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Outtakes of the stunts performed, the stunts that went wrong, the injuries and funny scenes.

Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Paula finds the letter in her aunts music score, Gregory crumples up the letter and jams it into his pocket. Later, when she finds the letter in Gregorys desk, its neatly folded, with no evidence of crumpling.

Trivia: There are 10 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• When this film was produced, the studio attempted to have all prints of the previous version, Gaslight (1940) destroyed. These efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, though the film was rarely seen for the next few decades.
• The aria that Ingrid Bergman is singing when we see her in the first scene of her in the present day is from the Gaetano Donizetti opera "Lucia Di Lammermoor". The opera is famous for its so-called "mad scene", in which the eponymous Lucia goes insane.
• Charles Boyers contract stipulated top billing. When David O. Selznick heard this (Ingrid Bergman was under contract to him at the time), he refused to loan MGM Bergmans services. It was only after much pleading from Bergman, who was very keen to work with Boyer, that Selznick finally relented.

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