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ANTON WALBROOK in GASLIGHT (1940) | dir. Thorold Dickinson
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ANTON WALBROOK in GASLIGHT (1940) | dir. Thorold Dickinson
Gaslight was released on 4 May 1944.
Based on Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play, the MGM production followed a 1940 film version released in the UK (the 1944 version was released as The Murder in Thornton Square in the UK), but differs significantly. When MGM purchased the rights to the material, the contract stipulated that all prints of the 1940 film be destroyed, as well as the negative, a directive that was ignored.
The George Cukor-directed Gaslight was a commercial and critical success, receiving 7 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Charles Boyer), Best Supporting Actress (Angela Lansbury), Best Screenplay (John Balderston, Walter Reisch, and John Van Druten), and Best Cinematography (Joseph Ruttenberg).
Gaslight received 2 Oscars: Ingrid Bergman for Best Actress, and Best Art Direction - Black and White.
- patrick hamilton, hangover square
Rope, Patrick Hamilton
My sister was telling me about her reformation history class, and via game of telephone, I have put my impression of several plot beats together in meme format. The idea of theology interacting with historical political drama cracks me up. And so does the idea of Calvin gentle parenting Knox.
Fun fact! I named my first car J. Cal, and then it got totaled. My car now is J. Knox because someone decided to build a parking garage over his grave. Such is the common dilemma of dying in Europe pre-industrial revolution, I suppose.
And finally, shout out to our boi P. Hammy, one of the coolest martyrs to ever go out...in a blaze...of glory... He also had an epic beard.
Gas Light/Angel Street (Patrick Hamilton) "Under the guise of kindness, Jack Manningham is slowly torturing his fragile wife Bella into insanity in his efforts to cover his search for treasure from his diabolical past. He makes her think she is forgetting things and rattles her nerves with the flickering gaslight, which he controls from another room. One day, when Jack is out, Bella has an unexpected caller: kindly Inspector Rough from Scotland Yard. Rough is convinced that Jack is a homicidal maniac wanted for a murder committed fifteen years earlier in this very house. Gradually the Inspector restores Bella's confidence in herself and as the evidence against Jack unfolds.
The play that inspired the movie 1994 "Gaslight" which brought the term "gaslighting" into the public eye."
The Book of the War (Lawrence Miles et. al.) Synopsis: "The Great Houses: Immovable. Implacable. Unchanging. Old enough to pass themselves off as immortal, arrogant enough to claim ultimate authority over the Spiral Politic.
The Enemy: Not so much an army as a hostile new kind of history. So ambitious it can re-write worlds, so complex that even calling it by its name seems to underestimate it.
Faction Paradox: Renegades, ritualists, saboteurs and subterfugers, the criminal-cult to end all criminal-cults, happy to be caught in the crossfire and ready to take whatever's needed from the wreckage… assuming the other powers leave behind a universe that's habitable.
The War: A fifty-year-old dispute over the two most valuable territories in existence: "cause" and "effect."
Marking the first five decades of the conflict, THE BOOK OF THE WAR is an A to Z of a self-contained continuum and a complete guide to the Spiral Politic, from the beginning of recordable time to the fall of humanity. Part story, part history and part puzzle-box, this is a chronicle of protocol and paranoia in a War where the historians win as many battles as the soldiers and the greatest victory of all is to hold on to your own past."
Propaganda: A text which purports to be a constantly shifting and updating guide to The War, a conflict so overarching and complete that every other conflict is but a pale shadow thereof; the Time War. Of course, since it would shift retroactively with the changing timelines, there is no way to prove or disprove this claim. Notable entries include cities built from days stolen from shifting calendars, the secrets of removing yourself from history while still leaving yourself free to interfere, Grandfather Paradox, the location of the exact center of history, how to weaponize banality, and Parablox.
Oh, and there's something else in there. Something that seems to be talking to you.
Spiral Leitner Bracket Round 3 Bout 4
Gas Light/Angel Street (Patrick Hamilton)
The Book of the War (Lawrence Miles et. al.)
On 29 February 1528 - Scottish Reformer Patrick Hamilton was burned at the stake. Having earlier travelling to Europe, where he met several of the leading reformed thinkers, Patrick returned to Scotland to preach. He was tried as a heretic by Archbishop James Beaton, found guilty and handed over to secular authorities to be burnt at the stake in St Andrews as Scotland's first martyr of the Reformation.
“Your mind indeed is tired. Your mind so tired that it can no longer work at all. You do not think. You dream. Dream all day long. Dream everything. Dream maliciously and incessantly. Don’t you know that by now?”
— Patrick Hamilton, Angel Street