Spellbound
United States • 1945 • 1h 51m
Director
#136Criterion Collection →Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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.
Credits
Crew
DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
WriterBen Hecht, Angus MacPhail
CinematographerGeorge Barnes
ComposerMiklós Rózsa
ProducerDavid O. Selznick
Cast
Ingrid Bergmanas Dr. Constance Petersen
Gregory Peckas John Ballantine
Leo G. Carrollas Dr. Murchison
Michael Chekhovas Dr. Alexander Brulov