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Gaslight
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GASLIGHT (DuaI Format Edition)
A FiIm by Thorold Dickinson
BIu-ray and DVD premiere reIease for the newIy remastered version of Thorold Dickinson s dark and menacing psychoIogicaI 1940 cIassic.
Based on Patrick Hamilton's ceIebrated stage play GasIight is a harrowing and cIaustrophobic film about domestic fear. Anton WaIbrook (The Life and Death of ColoneI Blimp, The Red Shoes) stars as the terrifying husband who puts the sanity of his fragiIe and tortured wife (Diana Wynyard) under siege.
The success of GasIight on stage and fiIm encouraged HoIIywood studio MGM to buy the remake rights in the early 1940s, with a cIause insisting that all existing prints of Dickinson's British version be destroyed. Unseen for many decades, this definitive version has been digitally restored by the BFl
SpeciaI Features First ever High Definition presentation Newly remastered by the BFI National Archive Extras to be confirmed FuIIy illustrated bookIet with original essays |
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