Every heard of the term "Gaslighting?" This film is where that term comes from. It means trying to get another person to believe what is not true - convincing them that their thoughts and feelings are not valid even when they are.Though I usually don't like murder mysteries, I do love this movie because I think it has great psychological value. I think it is one of the best films of showing the emotional abuse of gaslighting. I think this film shows us that we can't believe all people in all situations.

Ingrid Bergman plays a traumatized woman who has something someone else wants. Her condition involves the death of her mother. She marries the usually suave Charles Boyer and something begins to go amiss. Because of her fragility, she is suddenly culpable for actions that would seem out of character for her. She begins to see and hear things that Boyer and member of the household claim not to see or hear. She also begins a pattern of kleptomania. She is on a road to a mental hospital, until she meets a police officer, played by Joseph Cotten. There is something going on involved with the home they are living in, which once belonged to her mother. The way this is constructed is superb. One of our finest films with some of our finest actors.

I wasn't expecting much of this movie, because i'm not a Ingrid Bergman fan, i always think she over acted in the dramatic scenes. But i think she's perfect in this movie, she is believable every single time, you inevitably go with her downwards that spiral of depression and despair for believing she's losing her mind. Charles Boyer was flawless as the sociopath that ruins ones live to serve his interests solely. I loved some of his facial expressions, and particularly that close up on his face when he asked Bergman about the picture.The movie is brilliant! I do love a good psychological thriller, being one of my favorite genres. The story is incredibly good, the pace is right, the dialogs weren't very clever, they didn't have much depth as you would expect of this genre. What i mean is, Bergman believed to easily she was losing her mind without questioning herself and the times she did it was as if it was a rhetorical question. But given the year it was filmed it's excusable since men didn't expect women to think too much.Overall putting the film in the year he was filmed, it's pretty good, and very enjoyable even for todays audiences. I rate it as a "must see".

A young bride (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband (Charles Boyer) move into the house where her aunt was murdered years before. Suddenly her sweetheart of a husband becomes cruel and she seems to be losing her mind. A Scotland Yard detective (Joseph Cotten) becomes enamored with her and starts investigating.A great-looking thriller from MGM with a fine cast. It's based on a play (filmed before) but George Cukor does a good job making it feel fresh and not stagy. Wonderful MGM production values. Love those period sets and costumes. Bergman's Oscar-winning performance is one of her best. Boyer and Cotten are solid as ever. Dame May Witty plays a well-intentioned busybody that kind of got on my nerves. Angela Lansbury's good in her film debut. The movie's biggest failing is its predictability. When I first watched it many years ago, I didn't like it much because of this. But now I'm able to appreciate the good qualities of the film more. You get a good idea fairly early on here who the villain is and what they are up to (assuming you weren't spoiled by plot synopses online or in film guides, 95% of which give away the big plot points). Like many classic Hitchcock films, it isn't a mystery or twist that makes it work but fine characters and suspense built up throughout the picture.