Cinema: Gaslight Shadows

NIGHT WATCH

Directed by BRIAN G. HUTTON

Screenplay by TONY WILLIAMSON

Elizabeth Taylor, looking unwieldy, appears here as a rich Englishwoman whose sleep is troubled by nightmares about her former husband. She is haunted by memories of his death in a car wreck, in the company of a young lady of dubious virtue. During one sleepless night, she looks out of her window at the spooky house across the yard and sees—or thinks she sees, or at least says she sees—a dead man sitting in an armchair with his throat cut. Later she sees light...