![]() ![]() But in its own small-scale way a superior film by far. The Time Out critic wrote, "Nothing like as lavish as the later MGM version . Leonard Maltin gave the film 3 + 1⁄ 2 stars (out of 4): "Electrifying atmosphere, delicious performances, and a succinctly conveyed sense of madness, and evil lurking beneath the surface of the ordinary". Rotten Tomatoes tallied a 100% score, based on six professional reviews. Katie Johnson as Alice Barlow's maid (uncredited).Cathleen Cordell as Nancy, the parlour maid.Anton Walbrook as Paul Mallen/Louis Bauer.Bauer attempts to coerce Bella into freeing him from his restraints, but she denounces him at knifepoint before he is led away by the police. The cornered Bauer attacks them both with a chair, but is knocked unconscious by Rough. Bella also tells Rough that she hid the rubies inside a vase on the mantelpiece. When the brooch is opened Alice Barlow's initials can be seen inside. ![]() Inside is Bella's missing brooch, and she reveals that the brooch has a secret compartment in which the rubies had been hidden. Rough confronts him with their knowledge and Bauer mockingly opens the desk drawer which he is confident contains no evidence. Rough forces open Paul's desk in search of evidence that Paul is Bauer, interrupted when Bella sees the gaslight flicker shortly before Bauer returns to the house. Furthermore, due to Bauer's bigamous marriage to another woman in Australia, his marriage to Bella is invalid. After Paul verbally abuses Bella before leaving to attend a music hall show with Nancy, Rough comes to the house and reveals to Bella that Paul is really the wanted Louis Bauer, who has returned to the house to search for the rubies he was unable to find after murdering his aunt, Alice Barlow. Rough gets wind of Paul's plan to have Bella certified insane and institutionalized so that he can carry on with Nancy, their promiscuous maid, and summons Bella's concerned cousin Vincent Ullswater for help in getting her out of Paul's grasp. The sinister interpretation of the change in light levels is part of a larger pattern of deception to which Bella is subjected, including berating her for losing a brooch he gave her which he actually took and hid inside his locked rolltop desk. Bella is persuaded that she is hearing noises, unaware that Paul enters the upper floors from the house next door. When Bella comments on the lights' dimming, he tells her that she is imagining things. Paul lights the gas lamps to search the closed-off upper floors, which causes the rest of the lamps in the house to dim slightly. Rough ( Frank Pettingell), a former detective involved in the original murder investigation, begins to suspect him of Alice Barlow's murder. Bella ( Diana Wynyard) soon finds herself misplacing small objects and, before long, Paul ( Anton Walbrook) has her believing she is losing her sanity. The house remains empty for many years, until newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move in. In Pimlico, London, Alice Barlow ( Marie Wright) is murdered by an unknown man, who then ransacks her house, ripping her furniture apart as if desperately searching for something. The play had been performed on Broadway as Angel Street, so when the MGM remake was released in the United States, it was given the same title as the American production. 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 Illustrated Who's Who of Cinema, Portland House, New York, 1987.Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller film directed by Thorold Dickinson which stars Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell.Bergman died of breast cancer in London, England. ![]() Lindström, and a son Robertino (born 1950) and twin daughters Isabella Rossellini and Isotta (born 1952) with Rossellini. She had a daughter Pia (born 1938) by her first husband Dr. Bergman married Roberto Rossellini in 1950. Her last role was in a television miniseries Golda Meir (1982). She was nominated for seven Academy Awards. Bergman starred in movies Casablanca (1942), Gaslight (1944), Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946). Her first movie was a remake of a Swedish movie Intermezzo. She began acting in Sweden before moving to Hollywood in 1939. She won numerous accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, BAFTA Award and a Volpi Cup.īorn in Stockholm, Bergman enrolled at Royal Dramatic Drama School. Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress. ![]()
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