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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play.  Blu-ray and DVD premiere release for the newly remastered version of Thorold Dickinson's dark and menacing psychological 1940 classic. Based on Patrick Hamilton's celebrated stage play Gaslight is a harrowing and claustrophobic film about domestic fear. Anton Walbrook (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes) stars as the terrifying husband who puts the sanity of his fragile and tortured wife (Diana Wynyard) under siege. The success of Gaslight on stage and film encouraged Hollywood studio MGM to buy the remake rights in the early 1940s, with a clause 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 BFI. Actors Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell & Cathleen Cordell Director Thorold Dickinson Certificate PG Year 1940 Screen 1.37:1 Languages English Duration 1 hour and 25 minutes (approx)

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...