He has been secretly rummaging through Alice's belongings in the attic to find the jewels he is certain are there. He sought out Paula in Italy, managed to win her heart, married her, and suggested they live in London, all with the aim of getting back into the house to continue searching for Alice's jewels. Unknown to Paula, her husband is in fact Sergius Bauer, her aunt's murderer. Whenever she shows up, her face betrays a feeling of disdain Paula becomes convinced that Nancy loathes her. The young maid, Nancy (Angela Lansbury), does little to improve the situation. Paula begins to believe she should not go out in public. When Gregory finds it in her handbag, Paula becomes hysterical, and he takes her home. On the one occasion when Gregory does take her out to a musical gathering at a friend's house, he shows Paula his watch chain, from which his watch has mysteriously disappeared. Gregory allows her neither to go out nor to have visitors, implying that he is doing so for her own good, because her nerves have been acting up, causing her to become a kleptomaniac, and to imagine things that are not real. Gregory does everything in his power to isolate his wife from other people. Gregory suggests that these are all figments of Paula's imagination.Ĭharles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight. Paula also hears footsteps coming from above her in the sealed attic, and sees the gaslights dim and brighten for no apparent reason. A picture disappears from the walls of the house, and Gregory says that Paula took it, but Paula has no recollection of having done so. At the Tower of London, Paula loses a brooch that Gregory had given her, despite its having been stored safely in her handbag. Gregory's reaction is swift and violent however, he quickly composes himself, explaining his outburst as one of frustration at the bad memories his bride is experiencing.Īfter Alice's belongings are packed away in the attic and the door blocked, events take a turn for the bizarre. Before they do, Paula discovers a letter addressed to her aunt by a man named Sergius Bauer, dated only two days before the murder, tucked away in a music book. Gregory persuades her that they should live in the long-vacant London townhouse her aunt bequeathed her and, to help calm her anxieties, suggests they store all of Alice's furnishings in the attic. Paula eventually ends her long tutelage to marry him. Now an adult, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) meets Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer), and soon falls in love with him. Paula studies with him for years, all the while trying to forget that terrible night at Number 9 Thornton Square in London, England. Paula is sent to Italy so that she can train to be an opera star with the same teacher who once trained Alice. The perpetrator bolted, without the jewels he sought, after being interrupted by a child-Paula (Terry Moore)-Alice's niece, who was raised by her aunt following Paula's own mother's death years earlier. World-famous opera singer Alice Alquist has just been murdered. To avoid confusion with the first film, this version was originally given the title The Murder in Thornton Square in the UK. Gaslight had a larger scale and budget than the earlier film, and lends a different feel to the material. This 1944 version was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. The 1944 version was the second version to be filmed, following the British film Gaslight, directed by Thorold Dickinson and released in 1940. Gaslight is an American 1944 mystery-thriller film, adapted from Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play Gas Light, about a woman whose husband slowly manipulates her into believing that she is going insane.
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