Gaslight
1944, NR, 114 min.
Directed by George Cukor, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury.
Charles Boyer plays a man who tries, quite successfully, to drive his wife mad (hence, giving birth to the colloquial expression of gaslighting someone). Bergman won an Oscar for her mad flight.
This article appears in June 2 • 2000.
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