Gaslight (Original title)A Strange Case of Murder (Alternative title)Angel Street (Alternative title)
Date: September 1940 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Thorold Dickinson
Synopsis: Psychological drama. A wicked husband's efforts to drive his wife out of her mind.
Genre: Melodrama
Subject: Mental disorders
Releases
Date: September 1940Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 88 mins 53 secs - Length: 7983 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Anglo American Film Corporation Limited
Date: 08 July 1996Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 80 mins 34 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Home Video
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 83 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Title: Book reviewsAuthor: TAN, Lynette Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
Description: Book review of 'Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood' by Guy Barefoot (Continuum, 2001). Explores the crime melodrama in 1940s American and British cinema by analysing GASLIGHT, The LODGER, FANNY BY GASLIGHT, SUSPECT.
In: American Cinematographer v76 n12 December 1995 Pages: 92-95
Title: Gaslight twice told: part 1 of 2Author: TURNER, George Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Article on the adaptation of Thorold Dickinson's GASLIGHT from the stage play by Patrick Hamilton. [Part two in American Cinematographer January 1996 refers to the 1944 US adaptation directed by George Cukor].
In: The Listener v107 n2763 3 Jun 1982 Page: 33
Title: [The Listener - v107 n2763 3 Jun 1982: no known title]Language: English
In: Film Comment v12 n3 May/Jun 1976 Pages: 23-25
Title: [Film Comment - v12 n3 May/Jun 1976: no known title]Language: English
Description: Comparison of the two versions of the film.
In: Film Heritage v8 n4 Summer 1973 Pages: 19-25
Title: [Film Heritage - v8 n4 Summer 1973: no known title]Language: English
Description: Comparison of the two versions of GASLIGHT.
In: Motion Picture Herald v189 n7 15 Nov 1952 Page: 1607
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v189 n7 15 Nov 1952: no known title]Language: English
In: The Cine-Technician v10 n46/47 Jan/Apr 1944 Page: 1
Title: [The Cine-Technician - v10 n46/47 Jan/Apr 1944: no known title]Article type: LetterLanguage: English
Description: Letter from Sidney Cole, editor of GASLIGHT, to Lady Yule protesting at destruction of negative and prints of film.
In: Kinematograph Weekly n1728 30 May 1940
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1728 30 May 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v54 n4421 29 May 1940
Title: [Today's Cinema - v54 n4421 29 May 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v139 n11 15 Jun 1940
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v139 n11 15 Jun 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Documentary News Letter v1 n7 July 1940 Page: 9
Title: [Documentary News Letter - v1 n7 July 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Page: 88
Title: [ - : no known title]
Author: BAREFOOT, Guy Pages: i-xi, 212p.
Title: Sexual politics and narrative film: Hollywood and beyond
Author: WOOD, Robin Pages: i-x, 352p.
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(24)
Accessible materials to view(2)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 7617 FeetStock date: 1976BFI identifier: C-63477
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: PolyesterSound: CombinedLength: 7558 FeetStock date: 2003BFI identifier: C-1307853
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
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Description: WAVBFI identifier: N-101116
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-110619
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179038
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DCP - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179039
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DCDM - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179041
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: MOV - LTO5ProRes 422 (HQ) - BFI identifier: N-179042
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179038-2
Status: Master
Description: DCP - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179039-2
Status: Master
Description: DCDM - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179041-2
Status: Master
Description: MOV - LTO5ProRes 422 (HQ) - BFI identifier: N-179042-2
Status: Master
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-110619-2
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DPX - PDC Portable Digital CarrierBFI identifier: N-232265
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Video materials(1)
Description: HD Cam SRBFI identifier: N-179044
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Film materials(11)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 7436 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-63481
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 900 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-578540
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-594065
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 7617 FeetStock date: 1976BFI identifier: C-63477
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: PolyesterSound: CombinedLength: 7558 FeetStock date: 2003BFI identifier: C-1307853
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 7554 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-63478
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: Combined as MuteLength: 7555 FeetStock date: 1975BFI identifier: C-63480
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 7555 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-63483
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: PolyesterSound: Combined as MuteLength: 7557 FeetStock date: 2003BFI identifier: C-1353123
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 7555 FeetStock date: 1939BFI identifier: C-63479
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 7555 FeetStock date: 1975BFI identifier: C-63482
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: September 1940 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Thorold Dickinson
Synopsis: Psychological drama. A wicked husband's efforts to drive his wife out of her mind.
Genre: Melodrama
Subject: Mental disorders
Releases
Date: September 1940Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 88 mins 53 secs - Length: 7983 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Anglo American Film Corporation Limited
Date: 08 July 1996Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 80 mins 34 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Home Video
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 83 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
(20)
A British National production: British National, Presents: British National Films, Produced by: John Corfield, Associate Producer: Richard Vernon, Assistant Director: George Pollock, Screen Play by: A.R. Rawlinson, Bridget Boland, From the stage play ['Angel Street'] by: Patrick Hamilton, Photographed by: Bernard Knowles, Camera Operated by: Cyril Knowles, Edited by: Sidney Cole, Settings by: Duncan Sutherland, Musical Score by: Richard Addinsell, Musical Direction by: Muir Mathieson, [Orchestrations]: Roy Douglas, [Sound] Recordist: A.J. Brunker, Recorded on: Western Electric Mirrophonic, Studio: Denham Studios, Made at: D&P Studios
Cast
(21)
Anton Walbrook (Paul Mallen), Diana Wynyard (Bella Mallen), Frank Pettingell (E.G. Rough), Cathleen Cordell (Nancy), Robert Newton (Vincent Ullswater), Minnie Rayner (Elizabeth), Jimmy Hanley (Cobb), Marie Wright (Alice Barlow), Aubrey Dexter (house agent), Mary Hinton (Lady Winterbourne), Angus Morrison (pianist), Jack Barty (chairman of the music hall), The Darmora Ballet (dancers), Allan Lewis, Edwin Ellis, Molly Raynor, Pat Ronald, Alfred Atkins, Johnnie Schofield, Joe Arthur, Frank Marsh
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(12)
In: Journal of British Cinema and Television v2 n1 2005 Pages: 163-164Title: Book reviewsAuthor: TAN, Lynette Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
Description: Book review of 'Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood' by Guy Barefoot (Continuum, 2001). Explores the crime melodrama in 1940s American and British cinema by analysing GASLIGHT, The LODGER, FANNY BY GASLIGHT, SUSPECT.
In: American Cinematographer v76 n12 December 1995 Pages: 92-95
Title: Gaslight twice told: part 1 of 2Author: TURNER, George Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Article on the adaptation of Thorold Dickinson's GASLIGHT from the stage play by Patrick Hamilton. [Part two in American Cinematographer January 1996 refers to the 1944 US adaptation directed by George Cukor].
In: The Listener v107 n2763 3 Jun 1982 Page: 33
Title: [The Listener - v107 n2763 3 Jun 1982: no known title]Language: English
In: Film Comment v12 n3 May/Jun 1976 Pages: 23-25
Title: [Film Comment - v12 n3 May/Jun 1976: no known title]Language: English
Description: Comparison of the two versions of the film.
In: Film Heritage v8 n4 Summer 1973 Pages: 19-25
Title: [Film Heritage - v8 n4 Summer 1973: no known title]Language: English
Description: Comparison of the two versions of GASLIGHT.
In: Motion Picture Herald v189 n7 15 Nov 1952 Page: 1607
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v189 n7 15 Nov 1952: no known title]Language: English
In: The Cine-Technician v10 n46/47 Jan/Apr 1944 Page: 1
Title: [The Cine-Technician - v10 n46/47 Jan/Apr 1944: no known title]Article type: LetterLanguage: English
Description: Letter from Sidney Cole, editor of GASLIGHT, to Lady Yule protesting at destruction of negative and prints of film.
In: Kinematograph Weekly n1728 30 May 1940
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1728 30 May 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v54 n4421 29 May 1940
Title: [Today's Cinema - v54 n4421 29 May 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v139 n11 15 Jun 1940
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v139 n11 15 Jun 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Documentary News Letter v1 n7 July 1940 Page: 9
Title: [Documentary News Letter - v1 n7 July 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Page: 88
Title: [ - : no known title]
Books held in BFI Reuben Library
(2)
Title: Gaslight melodrama: from Victorian London to 1940s HollywoodAuthor: BAREFOOT, Guy Pages: i-xi, 212p.
Title: Sexual politics and narrative film: Hollywood and beyond
Author: WOOD, Robin Pages: i-x, 352p.
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(24)
Accessible materials to view(2)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 7617 FeetStock date: 1976BFI identifier: C-63477
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: PolyesterSound: CombinedLength: 7558 FeetStock date: 2003BFI identifier: C-1307853
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Digital materials(12)
Description: WAVBFI identifier: N-101116
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-110619
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179038
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DCP - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179039
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DCDM - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179041
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: MOV - LTO5ProRes 422 (HQ) - BFI identifier: N-179042
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179038-2
Status: Master
Description: DCP - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179039-2
Status: Master
Description: DCDM - LTO5BFI identifier: N-179041-2
Status: Master
Description: MOV - LTO5ProRes 422 (HQ) - BFI identifier: N-179042-2
Status: Master
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-110619-2
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Description: DPX - PDC Portable Digital CarrierBFI identifier: N-232265
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file
Video materials(1)
Description: HD Cam SRBFI identifier: N-179044
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Film materials(11)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 7436 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-63481
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 900 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-578540
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-594065
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 7617 FeetStock date: 1976BFI identifier: C-63477
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: PolyesterSound: CombinedLength: 7558 FeetStock date: 2003BFI identifier: C-1307853
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 7554 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-63478
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: Combined as MuteLength: 7555 FeetStock date: 1975BFI identifier: C-63480
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 7555 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-63483
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: PolyesterSound: Combined as MuteLength: 7557 FeetStock date: 2003BFI identifier: C-1353123
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 7555 FeetStock date: 1939BFI identifier: C-63479
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 7555 FeetStock date: 1975BFI identifier: C-63482
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film