Meanwhile, the audience of Gaslight in all three incarnations can hardly doubt the malefic character of Paul Mallen (Anton Walbrook), rechristened Gregory Anton by MGM Oscar-nominated Angela Lansbury in 1944), who never quite capitalizes on her narrative potential as her mistress's rival in all ways. Something similar may be true of the saucy maid Nancy (Cathleen Cordell in 1940, Which only further confirms how the Platonic ideal of Gaslight would jettison him. Sounds promising, aye? Yet there's always this interloper poking around, spelling things out for her and then vacating from the big climax, The details of her own maltreatmentbut proved, in a further twist, unable to separate the paranoia innate to detective work from the paranoia induced by sleeping, or probably Imagine if the terrorized wife, possibly with the aid of the uncertain allies on her domestic staff, were to piece together That benefits from as much claustrophobia as possible. Rough (Frank Pettingell), or in 1944 as suave Scotland Yard detective Brian Cameron (Joseph Cotten), he always feels uninteresting as a person and extraneous to a scenario However he gets shoe-horned into the story, here as a livery coach-driver named The conceptions of all four major characters betray some problems, including one who shouldn't be hereĪt all: the tangential bystander who eventually deduces just what's going on at 12 Pimlico Square. Gaslight's liabilities are by no means limited to its periphery. Given that I screened it during the same weekend that I saw Roman Polanski's visually agile but inevitably stunted CarnageĪnd, even more to the point, David Fincher's sleek and texture-obsessed gloss on the incorrigibly misshapen Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, this Still, so much goes right in this film version, all without sparking a corresponding bump in my enthusiasm, that it's all the more obvious that I find some Thorold Dickinson's direction has its own miscalculations to answer for, so I hardly think I have seen a perfect rendering of until 1952.) Each time, my hopes go slightly up for this material, and each time the execution impresses meĪ little morebut not tremendously more. Remake this earlier version didn't play commercially in the U.S. Path to glory for their Oscar-winning, extremely profitable (MGM concertedly bought up and tried to lock up all the prints of this one, in order to pave an easier, less comparison-prone The first, British-produced adaptation for film. I've read the play, seen the famous Cukor-Bergman-Boyer version from 1944, and now taken in Gaslight turns out to be an LSAT, not an MCAT. Whereas, if you take the LSAT four times and yield the same good-but-not-great result, the problem seems less toĭo with circumstance and more to do with you. Off-day, or to skirt past this moment on your application. If you don't love your score, you want review boards to assume you had an Most often, repeat test-takers continue to land within the same score-range. OtherĮxams, like the LSAT for law school, and arguably some of the GREs, are good to take only once, because statistics show that people rarely improve over time, whereas theyįrequently do worse. The MCAT is also so information-based that you really can acquire extra knowledge you might not have mastered in time for a previous stab at the test. Schools won't consider you if you don't pass a certain level, even if it requires aįew attempts. Schoolare worth re-taking as many times as necessary in order to hit a benchmark score. Tenser execution than Hollywood remake, with sinister light and mise-en-scène, but flaws in the script still make me crazyĪs a university professor and advisor of undergraduates, I am often counseled that some big, pre-professional examsthe MCAT, for example, which gets you into medical ![]() Rawlinson and Bridget Boland (based on the play Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton). Cast: Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Jimmy Hanley, Minnie Rayner, Robert Newton, Marie Wright, Written on the occasion, too, of the lovely Tim Robey's 34th birthday.ĭirector: Thorold Dickinson. Written on the occasion of the late Diana Wynyard's 106th birthday. Reviewed in January 2012 / Click Here to Comment
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