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| GASLIGHT |
| Title of the Film | GASLIGHT |
| Alternative Titles | ANGEL STREET; A STRANGE CASE OF MURDER |
| English Titles | |
| Year of Release | 1940 |
| Country of Origin | UK |
| Language(s) | English |
| Run Time (in minutes) | 88 |
| Length (in meters) | 2434 |
| Colour | b/w |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Based on/Source | Play by Patrick Hamilton |
| Production Companies | British National Films |
| Producer(s) | John Corfield |
| Director | Thorold Dickinson |
| Cast | Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton |
| Literature | Kinematograph Weekly, 30 May 1940 Jewish Chronicle, 14 June 1940 Times, 17 June 1940 Punch, 26 June 1940 Picturegoer and Film Weekly, 29 June 1940 Documentary News Letter, July 1940 Picturegoer and Film Weekly, 31 August 1940 New York Times, 11 November 1952 |
| Special notes | "Anton Walbrook is brilliant as the merciless, calculating murderer. It is a grim study of the morbid." (Lionel Collier, Picturegoer, 29 June 1940) |