Gaslight (1940) (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)

Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard star in this classic British thriller based on Patrick Hamilton's play. After Alice Barlow (Marie Wright) is murdered in her own home by a thief seeking her priceless jewels the house lays empty for 20 years until the arrival of newly-weds Paul and Bella Mallen (Walbrook and Wynyard). Although he tries to divert his wife's attention away from his suspicious behaviour by convincing her she's going mad, Paul uses gaslights to search the house's closed upper floors for Alice's hidden jewels during the night. As B. G. Rough (Frank Pettingell), a detective from the original, unsolved murder case, becomes increasingly suspicious of Paul, he suspects him of hiding a sinister past identity...

Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
Spanish A B C (Thorold Dickinson, Sidney Cole, 1938, 20 mins): a short film on the Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War
Behind the Spanish Lines (Sidney Cole, Thorold Dickinson, 1938, 20 mins): a companion piece to Spanish Civil War
Westward Ho! (Thorold Dickinson, 1940, 9 mins): a short film to promote the evacuation of urban children to rural areas
Miss Grant Goes to the Door (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1940, 7 mins): a short film about a German invasion from a story by Dickinson
Yesterday is Over Your Shoulder (Thorold Dickinson, 1940, 9 mins): a short film encouraging unskilled workers to join free, government organised, engineering training schemes
Original promotional materials and documents from the BFI National Archive (downloadable PDFs, DVD only)

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Lexikon des Int.​Films: "Im viktorianischen London spielender Psychothriller, der vor allem durch eine effektvolle Kameraarbeit eine wohlig bedrohliche Atmosphäre schafft.​"