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Watch: Gaslight 1944 123movies, Full Movie Online – After the death of her famous opera-singing aunt, Paula Alquist (Ingrid Bergman) is sent to study in Italy to become a great opera singer as well. While there, she falls in love with the charming Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). The two return to London, and Paula begins to notice strange goings-on: missing pictures, strange footsteps in the night, and gaslights that dim without being touched. As she fights to retain her sanity, her new husband’s intentions come into question..
Plot: A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Ratings:

	7.8/10 Votes: 29,662
	89% | RottenTomatoes
	78/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 363 Popularity: 16.813 | TMDB

Reviews:

A good suspense film that could have been great.
Ingrid Bergman plays Paula, an orphaned Victorian-era Londoner whose opera-singer aunt is murdered at the beginning of the movie. She moves to Italy to follow in her aunt’s footsteps as a diva, but falls in love and returns to London with her new husband (Boyer) to live in her aunt’s empty house. There, she becomes the victim of a carefully-orchestrated campaign to drive her insane.

GASLIGHT is richly atmospheric, mostly well-acted, and beautifully photographed. There are chills aplenty as seemingly innocent people grow progressively creepier, and the movie is well-paced with each successive scene increasing Paula’s terror. The climax is tense and has a certain poetic justice to it.

The chief flaw in the movie is that we are clearly shown from the beginning that Paula is the victim of a third party and is not insane. Thus we cannot share the doubts and terror that she feels. We are not, like her, wondering if we can trust our senses, but merely wondering who is doing this to her. And the latter question isn’t very challenging to answer. With a little more subtlety, Cukor could have left us as much in the dark as Paula about why she is experiencing so many strange phenomena, and made this effective little film into a true masterwork of suspense. As it is, GASLIGHT is good, but fails to achieve its potential to match such classics as REBECCA or VERTIGO.

Bergman and Boyer make a very dynamic on-screen duo. The film does suffer from Joseph Cotten, whose apple-pie American accent makes for a very unconvincing Scotland Yard inspector. Angela Lansbury is delightfully saucy in her film debut as a Cockney maidservant. Dame May Whitty provides effective comic relief.

GASLIGHT is well worth a rental at any price, so long as your expectations aren’t overly high.

Rating: *** (out of ****).

Unpopular opinion here…
In that I have NEVER liked this film. I put it in the same category as I do “The Yearling” or “Old Yeller” – a classic, well directed, acted, and produced and memorable – to me – for all the wrong reasons. And since this is in the Turner Classic Movies library it gets trotted out a lot, and so I have tried to watch it several times, but I just don’t like it and don’t care to see it ever again.

Part of it may be that I have never really liked period pieces or Charles Boyer. No, unlike other reviewers, I don’t like him from the start. I don’t even believe the cheerful beginning where he and Paula seem in love. The film shows his true side soon enough, and I also don’t like seeing a true innocent – Paula – put through all of that mental torment just so Boyer’s murdering thief can get his rubies.

It does have some good and amusing parts – mainly Angela Lansbury as the maid who sees herself as the next Mrs. Anton, even if she sees what is happening to the first Mrs. Anton and that Mr. Anton is not exactly a husband to be trusted. Like those class boundaries would have ever been breeched in Victorian England.

The end leaves things open for Bergman’s Paula and Joseph Cotten’s cop to get romantic without waiting for her husband to go to the gallows. It turns out Mr. Anton AKA Sergis Bower was already married to somebody else when he married Paula. So from the beginning the whole relationship was a lie. I think I’d need ten years of therapy before I believed anybody ever again about anything if I was Paula. But in the time period portrayed there were no therapists only madhouses, and on top of that Paula would have been ostracized for being involved in a bigamy even if she had been completely deceived. An unforgiving era indeed. Your mileage may vary.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 54 min (114 min)
Budget 2068000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director George Cukor
Writer John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston
Actors Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Country United States
Awards Won 2 Oscars. 6 wins & 7 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory MGM Studio Lab, USA
Film Length 3,030 m (Yugoslavia), 3,117.8 m (12 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm