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Gaslight
Why this pick
Its ornate Victorian interiors and steadily tightening psychological menace closely echo Experiment Perilous, as a vulnerable wife is isolated and made to doubt her own mind.
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MOVIE1944 1h 31m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story takes place in 1903. During a train trip, psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney), when she turns to him for reassurance during a torrential downpour. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida, both of whom she effectively raised. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died while visiting her brother for tea. Shortly afterwards, he meets the strange couple and becomes suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick (Paul Lukas) keeps Allida (Hedy Lamarr), whom he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their town house [a New York brownstone in the film], cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly Bailey takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Hedy Lamarr
Allida Bederaux
George Brent
Dr. Huntington Bailey
Albert Dekker
'Clag' Claghorn
Carl Esmond
John Maitland
George N. Neise
Alec / Gregory
William Post Jr.
District Attorney
Paul Lukas
Nick Bederaux
Olive Blakeney
Clarissa 'Cissie' Bederaux