This also serves as eloquent argument against the premise that remakes are coming closer together, today, than they ever have before. So here we have yet another stake through the heart of the oft-repeated premise that “Remakes Always Suck.” Starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury. Screenplay by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John R. Starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wyngard. Rawlinson and Bridget Boland, from the play by Patrick Hamilton. Gaslight aka Angel Street, The Murder in Thorton Street, A Strange Case Of Murder (1940). Marshall Ernest Borgnine Fargo Father of the Bride Flight Of the Phoenix Frankenstein Gus van Sant Helena Bonham Carter Henry Fonda Horror House of Wax Ian Holm Index Jack Lemmon Jack Nicholson James Bond James Stewart James Whale Jaws John Cleese John Wayne Kenneth Branagh Laurel and Hardy Liam Neeson Lord Of the Rings Mae Clark Martin Short Mary Shelley Movies Night Of the Living dead Peter Cushing Peter Lorre Psycho Remakes Robert De Niro Roddy McDowall Russell Crowe Science Fiction Serpico Star Trek Star Wars Steve Martin The Godfather The Maltese Falcon The Poseidon Adventure The Three Musketeers Thriller Tim Burton Tom Hulce Toshiro Mifune Vincent price Wages of Fear Westerns William Friedkin Woody Allen Zero Hour Tag Cloud! Air Force One Airplane Akira Kurosawa Alfred Hitchcock Angela Lansbury Anthony Perkins Avatar Boris Karloff Buster Keaton Cary Grant Charles Laughton Christopher Lee Coen Brothers Comedy Daniel Craig Dan O'Bannon designated Asshole Disaster Dog Day AFternoon E.G.Rough), Cathleen Cordell (Nancy, the Parlour Maid), Robert Newton (Vincent Ullswater), Minnie Rayner (Elizabeth, the Cook). Principal Cast: Anton Walbrook (Paul Mallen, aka Louis Bauer), Diana Wynyard (Bella Mallen), Frank Pettingell (B.G. Rawlinson, Bridget Boland, from play Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton Producers: John Corfield, Richard Vernon (associate) Vienna-born Walbrook (1900-1967) established himself as a star of stage and films in Germany and Austria before emigrating to England and becoming a Continental leading man in such films as The Red Shoes (1948) and La Ronde (1950). In the 1940s she was married for four years to the celebrated film director Carol Reed. London-born Wynyard (1906-1964) was a distinguished star of the British stage who also succeeded on Broadway and in American and English films, winning an Oscar nomination for Cavalcade (1933). Walbrook was singled out by critics of the day for particular praise as the husband, whose outward veneer of suave sophistication hides inner cruelty, greed and desperation.
Bella at last finds an unlikely aide in an ex-Scotland Yard detective (Frank Pettingell) she has met socially.īoth roles offer plum parts for actors, with Wynyard delivering a convincing performance in the role that would win Bergman a Best Actress Oscar. In the British film, Walbrook plays Paul Mallen, who convinces his bride Bella (Wynyard) that she is losing her memory and indeed her mind while he searches her Victorian mansion for the rubies that had belonged to her late aunt. Luckily for film fans, the original somehow survived and may be enjoyed today.īoth versions of Gaslight were adapted from Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street, a long-running London stage mystery that also enjoyed success on Broadway in 1941 with Vincent Price and Judith Evans in the leading roles. Indeed, many critics still feel that the British version is superior, portraying as it does the casual cruelty of the English class system.
Because the original had won high critical praise, the studio hoped in this manner to avoid unfavorable comparisons to the lavishly produced remake. When MGM bought the rights to remake this Victorian mystery-thriller with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in the leading roles, it ordered all copies of the British film destroyed. The original stars Anton Walbrook as the villainous husband in search of a fortune in rubies and Diana Wynyard as the unfortunate wife who is almost driven insane by his devious ways. The British version of Gaslight (1940), also known in England as A Strange Case of Murder, preceded its American remake by four years.
0 kommentar(er)
