For her stellar performance in George Cukor’s taut psychological thriller Gaslight, Ingrid Bergman won the first of her three Academy Awards, playing a bride whose sanity starts to crumble after moving with her mysterious new husband (Charles Boyer) into the isolated estate where her aunt was murdered. But is she really going mad or is there something more terrifyingly evil afoot? With Joseph Cotten as a Scotland Yard investigator and a young Angela Lansbury in her debut role.
“With Mr. Boyer doing the driving in his best dead-pan hypnotic style, while the flames flicker strangely in the gas-jets and the mood music bongs with heavy threats, it is no wonder that Miss Bergman goes to pieces in a most distressing way. Both of these popular performers play their roles right to the hilt. Nice little personality vignettes are interestingly contributed, too, by Joseph Cotten as a stubborn detective, Dame May Whitty and Angela Lansbury as a maid.” – Bosley Crowther, The New York Times
