
Get the popcorn and turn off the cell phone! This is where the term “gas-lighting” comes from… Charles Boyer plays a sinister husband out to systematically make his wife crazy. It holds up! Great acting and ratcheting tension. A must see if you like movies. Nominated for seven Oscars. Ingrid Bergman won for Best Actress; a very young Angela Landsbury was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. This film holds up as a classic. There is a 1940 British version as well…not bad, worth watching for comparison, but Boyer, Bergman and Landsbury are tough to beat.
I mentioned this one in Monkey Mind. A solid example of film noir. Not Fritz Lang’s best, but still worth watching. The story is reminiscent of Blue Beard– our heroine begins to suspect that her husband killed his previous wife. What it may lack in plot, it makes up for with camera work and gorgeous noir.