Gaslight (1944): Classic Cinema Sundays

Rating: Passed — comparable to a modern PG

Running time: 1 hour 54 minutes

Genre: Psychological thriller / mystery

Director: George Cukor

Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury

Ingrid Bergman delivers an Oscar-winning performance as a young wife whose charming but sinister husband methodically convinces her that she is losing her mind. As footsteps echo from a sealed attic and the gaslights mysteriously dim, she must uncover the truth before he destroys her completely. The gripping psychological thriller that gave the world the term “gaslighting.”