Gaslight (1944 film)

"That house comes into my dreams sometimes - a house of horror. Strange - I haven't dreamed of it since I've known you. I haven't been afraid since I've known you."

"If it was I who took that picture down...if it was I who took it down the other times, if I do all these senseless, meaningless things, so meaningless, why should I take a picture down? But then, I don't know what I do anymore...But then, if that's true, then you must be gentle with me. You must bear with me, please. Oh please, Gregory, please!"

"I hear noises and footsteps. I imagine things, that there are people over the house. I'm frightened, and of myself too."

"It isn't here, you must have dreamed you put it there. Are you suggesting that this is a knife I hold in my hand? Have you gone mad, my husband? Yes, that's it. [throws the knife away] I am mad. I'm always losing things and hiding things and I can never find them, I don't know where I've put them. That was a knife, wasn't it? And I have lost it...I must look for it, mustn't I? If I don't find it, you'll put me in the madhouse. Where could it be now? Perhaps it's behind this picture. Yes, it must be here. No, no - where should I look now? Perhaps I put it over here. Yes, I must have done that. [She opens a drawer and discovers the 'missing' brooch] My brooch. The brooch I lost at the Tower. I found it at last - you see? But it doesn't help you, does it? And I'm trying to help you, aren't I? Trying to help you to escape. How can a mad woman help her husband to escape?...Yes, I am mad as my mother was mad. If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I'm mad, I'm rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart!"

"Jewels are wonderful things. They have a life of their own."

"I know you never lie to me. I believe you. You're not lying. It's worse than lying. You've forgotten. You've forgotten him as you forget everything. But perhaps I'm wrong to try to handle this myself. The case is one for people who know about those things."

"I don't ask you to understand me. Between us all the time were those jewels, like a fire - a fire in my brain that separated us - those jewels which I wanted all my life. I don't know why...Goodbye, Paula."

"Charles Boyer - Gregory Anton"

"Ingrid Bergman - Paula Alquist Anton"

"Joseph Cotten - Brian Cameron"

"Dame May Whitty - Miss Bessie Thwaites"

"Angela Lansbury - Nancy Oliver"

"Barbara Everest - Elizabeth Tompkins"

"Emil Rameau - Maestro Guardi"

"Edmund Breon - General Huddleston"

"Halliwell Hobbes - Mr. Mufflin"

"Tom Stevenson - PC Williams"

"Heather Thatcher - Lady Mildred Dalroy"

"Lawrence Grossmith - Lord Freddie Dalroy (final film role)"

"Terry Moore - Paula Alquist – Age 14 (uncredited)"

"Morgan Wallace - Fred Garrett"

"Alec Craig - Turnkey"