GASLIGHT (1944)

An international cast came together to create one of the screen’s most glamorous thrillers in GASLIGHT. Sweden’s Ingrid Bergman plays a young bride being systematically driven mad by her husband (French heartthrob Charles Boyer) as he tries to convince her that what she’s seeing isn’t really there. Adding to her troubles are the new maid (British war refugee Angela Lansbury) who intimidates her mistress while brazenly flirting with her husband. Under George Cukor’s guidance, they turned Patrick Hamilton’s play into a crackling good melodrama. Cukor supervised everything, including the deliberately overcrowded set that received one of the film’s two Oscars. He also guided Bergman through her first Oscar-winning performance, suggesting she study mental patients to find the right way to play her character’s’ increasingly agitated states. Oscar nominations also went to Boyer and Lansbury, the latter making an indelible impact in her film debut at the age of eighteen. 

d. George Cukor, 114m, DCP

Restoration by Warner Bros. Discovery.