Spellbound
1945
This is love! Complete...reckless...violent!
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
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- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by
- Hilary St George Saunders, John Palmer, Angus MacPhail, Ben Hecht
- Produced by
- David O. Selznick
- Composer
- Miklós Rózsa
- Cinematographer
- George Barnes
- Origin country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Language
- English
- Also known as
- Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound
- TMDB
- 7.4/10 (1,040 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 86% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 78/100
- IMDb
- 7.5/10 (55,841 votes)
Awards
- NominatedAcademy Award— Best Picture(1946)
- NominatedAcademy Award— Best Director(1946)
Cast
Ingrid Bergman
Dr. Constance Petersen
Gregory Peck
John Ballantine
Leo G. Carroll
Dr. Murchison
Michael Chekhov
Dr. Alexander Brulov
John Emery
Dr. Fleurot
Steven Geray
Dr. Graff
Paul Harvey
Dr. Hanish
Erskine Sanford
Dr. Galt (uncredited)
Norman Lloyd
Mr. Garmes
Donald Curtis
Harry
Rhonda Fleming
Mary Carmichael
Bill Goodwin
House detective
Art Baker
Det. Lt. Cooley
Regis Toomey
Det. Sgt. Gillespie
Wallace Ford
Hotel masher
Jean Acker
Matron (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Railway Gateman (uncredited)
Richard Bartell
Ticket Taker (uncredited)
Crew
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Miklós Rózsa, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
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