A cleric's son saves a maid from suicide and she saves him when he is framed for killing a crook's mistress..
Rowland Talbot
United Kingdom
Gaslight never merely glows in Rowland Talbot’s London—it drips, corrodes, and baptizes. From the first amber iris-in we are plunged into a metropolis that chews virtue and exhales soot, a labyrinth where hymn-singing silhouettes duel with switchblade shadows. The film’s pulse is established not through title-card ser...
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Bert Haldane
Bert Haldane
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" Gaslight never merely glows in Rowland Talbot’s London—it drips, corrodes, and baptizes. From the first amber iris-in we are plunged into a metropolis that chews virtue and exhales soot, a labyrinth where hymn-singing silhouettes duel with switchblade shadows. The film’s pulse is established not through title-card sermonizing but via a pair of mirrored rescues: a parson’s rebellious offspring halts a housemaid’s watery self-immolation, and that same woman later risks the gallows to resurrect hi..."
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