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Spellbound (1945)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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Overview
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man’s murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Rated NR | Length 111 minutes
Actors
Ingrid Bergman | Gregory Peck | Leo G. Carroll | Michael Chekhov | John Emery | Steven Geray | Paul Harvey | Erskine Sanford | Norman Lloyd | Donald Curtis | Rhonda Fleming | Bill Goodwin | Art Baker | Regis Toomey | Wallace Ford | Jean Acker | Irving Bacon | Richard Bartell | Harry Brown | Joel Davis | Jacqueline deWit | Edward Fielding | Alfred Hitchcock | Teddy Infuhr | Victor Kilian | George Meader | Matt Moore | Constance Purdy | Addison Richards | Janet Scott | Clarence Straight | Dave Willock
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/16/2017 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
First time revisiting this one in quite a while. Not as strong as I had remembered it. I love Gregory Peck but his performance here felt a little lacking. The Freudian psychoanalysis stuff feels a little tired and overwrought but I know it didn’t feel that way when it first came out.
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