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gaslight

  1. gaslight (noun)
    light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
  2. gaslight (Noun)
    The light produced by burning piped illuminating gas.
  3. gaslight (Noun)
    A lamp which operates by burning gas.
  4. gaslight (Verb)
    To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity.
  5. Gaslight 
    Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play, Gas Light, performed as Angel Street on Broadway in 1941. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in the United Kingdom, had been made a mere four years earlier. This 1944 version of the story was directed by George Cukor and starred Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. It had a larger scale and budget and lends a different feel to the material than the earlier film.

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