Gaslight (1944)

Note des utilisateurs:

7.9/10   

Réalisateur:

George Cukor

Writers:

Patrick Hamilton (play)
John Van Druten (screenplay) ...
(suite)

Release Date:

11 mai 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Drame | Mystery | Thriller

Accroche:

Strange drama of a captive sweetheart!

Plot:

Paula's aunt Alice Alquist, a famous entertainer, is murdered in her home. Paula, who lives with her aunt finds the body...

Plot Keywords:

Scotland Yard | Italy | Nervous Breakdown | Letter | Driven Mad

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 5 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

'A' treatment in all departments

Ensemble

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
Lawrence Grossmith	...	Lord Dalroy
Jakob Gimpel	...	Pianist
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Gary Gray	...	Boy in Park with Nanny
Terry Moore	...	Paula Alquist - Age 14 (as Judy Ford)
Harry Adams	...	Policeman (uncredited)
John Ardizoni	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Major Frank Baker	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Wilson Benge	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Arnold Bennett	...	Footman (uncredited)
Florence Benson	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Arthur Blake	...	Butler (uncredited)
Lillian Bronson	...	Lady (uncredited)
Leonard Carey	...	Guide (uncredited)
Alec Craig	...	Turnkey (uncredited)
Antonio D'Amore	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Frank Eldredge	...	Lamplighter (uncredited)
Maude Fealy	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Al Ferguson	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Helen Flint	...	Franchette (uncredited)
Gibson Gowland	...	Servant (uncredited)
Roger Gray	...	Stranger (uncredited)
Bobby Hale	...	Lamplighter (uncredited)
Joy Harington	...	Miss Laura Pritchard (uncredited)
Tom Hughes	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Jack Kirk	...	Cab Driver (uncredited)
Pat Malone	...	Policeman (uncredited)
Al Masiello	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Charles McNaughton	...	Wilkins (uncredited)
Clive Morgan	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Georgie Nokes	...	Boy (uncredited)
Joseph North	...	Policeman (uncredited)
Simon Olivier	...	Boy in Museum (uncredited)
Elsie Prescott	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Joseph Romantini	...	Bit Part (uncredited)
Syd Saylor	...	Baggage Clerk (uncredited)
Arthur Stone	...	Durkin (uncredited)
Alix Terry	...	Girl (uncredited)
Morgan Wallace	...	Fred Garrett (uncredited)
Eric Wilton	...	Valet (uncredited)
Eustace Wyatt	...	Budge (uncredited)
Phyllis Yuse	...	Young Girl (uncredited)
Guy Zanette	...	Bit Part (uncredited)

Réalisé par
George Cukor

Scénaristes
Patrick Hamilton		(play "Angel Street")
John Van Druten		(screenplay) and
Walter Reisch		(screenplay) and
John L. Balderston		(screenplay)

Produit par
Arthur Hornblow Jr.	....	producer

Musique originale
Bronislau Kaper

Image
Joseph Ruttenberg		(director of photography)

Montage
Ralph E. Winters

Direction artistique
Cedric Gibbons

Décorateur de plateau
Edwin B. Willis

Création des costumes
Irene

Maquillage
Jack Dawn	....	makeup artist

Assistant réalisateur
Jack Greenwood	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
William Ferrari	....	associate art director
Paul Huldschinsky	....	associate set decorator

Technicien du son
Douglas Shearer	....	recording director
Joe Edmondson	....	sound (uncredited)

Effets spéciaux
Warren Newcombe	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Harry Stradling Jr.	....	assistant camera (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Marion Herwood Keyes	....	associate costume supervisor (as Marion Herwood)

Editorial Department
William Webb	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Jakob Gimpel	....	musician: piano solos
Arthur Rosenstein	....	vocal coach (uncredited)

Divers
David O. Selznick	....	special advisor (uncredited)
Charles Walters	....	dance director (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributors

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1944) (USA) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1946) (France) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1947) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1994) (USA) (VHS)
• Turner Entertainment (1994) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2001) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (2004) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2005) (USA) (DVD)
• Chapel Distribution (1997) (Australia) (theatrical) (35mm print)
• Living Colour Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• TwellV (2007) (Japan) (TV)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)  presents

Autre(s) titre(s):

Murder in Thornton Square (UK)
Hantise (France) [fr]

Durée:

114 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Son:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Classification:

Netherlands:6 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Germany:12 | Spain:T | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:Approved (certificate #9800)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Anecdotes:

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.

Goofs:

Continuity: When embracing at the lake, hands and heads change position.

Guillemet:

Nancy Oliver: Gonna work on your tunes again tonight, sir? You're always working, aren't you?
Gregory Anton: Yes. What are you doing with your evening out?
Nancy Oliver: Oh, I'm going to a music hall...
[starts to sing 'Up in a balloon']
Gregory Anton: I've never been to an English music hall.
Nancy Oliver: Oh, you don't know what you've missed, sir...
Gregory Anton: And whom are you going to the music hall with?
Nancy Oliver: A gentleman friend, sir.
Gregory Anton: Oh, now you know, Nancy, don't you, that gentlemen friends are sometimes inclined to take liberties with young ladies.
Nancy Oliver: Oh no, sir, not with me. I can take care of myself - when I want to.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Reflections on 'Gaslight' (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Waltz from 'Die Fledermaus'

'A' treatment in all departments

In 'Gaslight' aka: 'The murder in Thorton Square' George Cukor, producer Arthur Hornblow Jr and writers John Van Druten, Walter Reisch and John Balderston demonstrated what could be done with good treatment to a film idea, given the 'A' treatment in all departments.

Partrick Hamilton's play about an ostensibly loving husband driving his wife to insanity came across with renewed force after its British filming (with Diana Wynyard and Anton Walbrook). Now it had Ingrid Bergman conveying mental torture brilliant enough to win the Oscar of 1944, and Charles Boyer extending his usual great-lover range to take on an extra duty of sadistic villainy.

A find among London's evacuee children in Hollywood was a 17 year old to make a striking debut, Angela Landsbury, it was hard to believe she had never acted before!