Spellbound (1945)

08/11/1945 (US)•Thriller, Mystery, Romance•1h 51m

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This is love! Complete...reckless...violent!

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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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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

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7.0

Written by CinemaSerf on Jul 1, 2022

When Leo G. Carroll ("Dr. Murchison") steps down as director of the "Green Manors" - a centre for psychoanalysis, he is replaced by Gregory Peck ("Dr. Edwardes") who immediately attracts the attention - romantic and professional - of Ingrid Bergman ("Dr. Petersen") who quickly discovers that he has quite a secret. Together they must work speedily to unravel a mystery of memory and murder before the authorities come to their own conclusions. This isn't my favourite Hitchcock thriller - Peck hasn't quite got the charisma or intensity the part required and though Bergman is beautiful; she is stil...