A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Acting
Bergman's unraveling — Oscar-winning fragility to furious clarity.
Direction
Cukor's shadowy mansion becomes a character itself.
Cinematography
Gas-lit interiors that literally flicker with uncertainty.
Director
George Cukor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film literally coined 'gaslighting' as psychological terminology — the word entered clinical and popular lexicon from this title.
Angela Lansbury made her film debut here at 18; she earned an Oscar nomination for just 9 minutes of screen time as the flirty, possibly complicit maid.
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