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Spellbound

Cast

Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll View All

Crew

Alfred Hitchcock (Director), Ben Hecht (Screenplay) View All

Release: Nov. 8th, 1945

Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes

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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Spellbound So many serious fiction and non-fiction films concerning youngsters focus on the perceived decadence of youth culture that it�s easy to be disillusioned and believe that kids today are mo...

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Thief
I also give props to Hitchcock and the writers for trying to instill the script with a loose thread of real psychology, even if its application feels convoluted, or too convenient for the story.

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Citizen Rules
I thought Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck were quite good and very believable as a romantic couple struggling with the mystery of Peck's identity and the logic of love being more initiative than psychoanalysis.