‘Angel Street:’ Unsettling the Dust

The original UK film adaptation of the play ‘Gaslight’ shows a woman becoming mentally unstable as she doubts her perceptions of reality.

Bella Mallen (Diana Wynyard) is creeped out, in “Angel Street.” Anglo-American Film Corp.

NR | 1h 24m | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 1940

These days, the word “gaslighting” seems to get tossed around more than loose tip change on a table at a greasy spoon. Whether someone forgets a birthday, changes his story, or starts a heated disagreement online, suddenly the term is doing work it was never meant to do.