Gaslight is a 1940 film

1940 in film

The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney classics Pinocchio and Fantasia.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released....

 directed by Thorold Dickinson

Thorold Dickinson

Thorold Barron Dickinson was a British film director, screenwriter, producer, and Britains's first university Professor of Film.-Early life and career:...

, based on Patrick Hamilton

Patrick Hamilton (dramatist)

Patrick Hamilton was an English playwright and novelist.He was well regarded by Graham Greene and J. B. Priestley and study of his novels has been revived recently because of their distinctive style, deploying a Dickensian narrative voice to convey aspects of inter-war London street culture...

's play Gas Light (1938) which stars Anton Walbrook

Anton Walbrook

Anton Walbrook, born was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom.- Life :...

, Diana Wynyard

Diana Wynyard

Diana Wynyard, CBE , whose birth name was Dorothy Isobel Cox, was an English stage and film actress.-Life and career:...

, and Frank Pettingell

Frank Pettingell

Frank Pettingell was an English actor.Pettingell was born in Liverpool, and educated at Manchester University...

. This film, which adheres more closely to the original play than the 1944 MGM adaptation

Gaslight (1944 film)

Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play, Gas Light, performed as Angel Street on Broadway in 1941. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in the United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier...

, was released in the United States under the title Angel Street to avoid confusion with the 1944 version, which stars Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer was a French actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976. After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found success in movies during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised romantic dramas,...

 and Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...

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Alice Barlow is murdered by an unknown man, who then ransacks her house looking for her rubies.