The husband in this movie is on my top 5 list of characters most hated characters. my disdain for this character was nearly enough to make me want to stop watching about halfway through this movie.
I remembered it good, but it's even better, great actors, great script, great direction and the origin of an expression to make someone a gaslight.
The best movie Hitchcock ever made. Can't say the long con plot of the movie is fully coherent, but no matter--the picture is delightfully macabre, with Boyer perfectly cast as a creep intent on destroying Bergman's sanity. I love Lansbury's minor character here, as a Cockney tart who loves a good night out.
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Ingrid Bergman was absolutely one of the best actresses ever and this movie was one of her best. Charles Boyer was a romantic good guy in most movies so this was his chance to break his normal roles.
The sad part is that this movie plot takes place everyday in someone's home even now more than 70 years later. It may cut close to home for some, but the most pivotal take away is that Bergman was chosen for the role and won an Oscar for it because it showed how a strong woman could easily be fooled if she has no lifeline to people outside the abusive home.