Gaslight (1940 film)

Gaslight
Pre-release poster for trade showing
Directed byThorold Dickinson
Written by
Based onGas Light
1938 play
by Patrick Hamilton
Produced byJohn Corfield
Starring
CinematographyBernard Knowles
Edited bySidney Cole
Music byRichard Addinsell
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo-American Film Corp. (United Kingdom)
Release date
  • 25 June 1940 (1940-06-25) (United Kingdom)
Running time
89 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based – Patrick Hamilton's Gas Light (1938) – than does the 1944 MGM remake. The play had been performed on Broadway as Angel Street,[2] so when the MGM remake was released in the United States, it was given the same title as the American production.

  1. ^ "Gaslight (1940)". BBFC. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
  2. ^ League, The Broadway. "Angel Street – Broadway Show". IMDb.com. Retrieved 28 January 2018.