Alice had raised Paula following her mother's death. The perpetrator leaves behind the valuable jewels he killed her for after Alice's fourteen-year-old niece, Paula, interrupts him. World-famous opera singer Alice Alquist has just been murdered at her home, No. 9 Thornton Square, London. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'.

Gaslight was released theatrically on May 4, 1944, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to critical acclaim and box-office success, grossing $4.6 million on a $2 million budget, and received seven nominations for the 17th Academy Awards, including for the Best Picture, winning two: Best Actress (for Bergman), and Best Production Design. The film features numerous deviations from the original stage play, though the central drama remains that of a husband trying to drive his wife insane in order to distract her from his criminal activities.

To avoid confusion with the first film, Cukor's version was originally titled The Murder in Thornton Square in the UK. Ī remake of the 1940 British film of the same name directed by Thorold Dickinson, Cukor's version had a larger scale and budget than the earlier film, and lends a different feel to the material. Balderston from Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light (1938), it follows a young woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is descending into insanity. Adapted by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L.

Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Angela Lansbury (in her film debut).

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