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Spellbound (1945)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Mystery | Film Noir | Suspense

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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

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Viewing Notes

Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) was also on my blindspot list but for some reason I thought I had seen it before. But soon I realized I had not so it made for a new watch and a good one even though you know how it’s attempting to manipulate the viewer. Love Ingrid Bergman in this.

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