Nominated for 7 Oscars, and winner of 2. This addition on the AFI 100 Thrills is an oldie, but goodie. Starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten, and Angela Lansbury in her acting debut. Bergman won the Oscar in a role for which she spent two weeks in a mental institution getting into character. The film center's around Bergman's character who returns to the home she grew up in and where her famous Aunt was murdered. Newly married to a man with secrets who begins a psychological game with Bergman's character trying to drive her insane. The title comes from the mystery behind the lights in her room dimming at night when her husband goes to his studio to work. Boyer does such a good job as a bad guy in this film that I would be hard for me to watch him in anything else without feeling that way. Cotten's performance as an investigator was the only flaw in my eyes. In the book he is an older man that actually new Bergman's murdered Aunt instead of man easily at most in his early 30's. It just didn't fit that someone that young could have remembered so much from over a decade ago. There is also no way that Boyer's character would have remembered him.
Despite this discontinuity it was a very enjoyable film. I mentioned this as Lansbury's first film, she was in a supporting role that is hard to grade. She didn't even make the movie poster, but it was neat to see her so young in this film.
Vote: 8/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855/
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