Spellbound
Spellbound is a 1945 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. The film is based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer.
Plot
Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a mental hospital in Vermont, accused by an unsuccessful suitor colleague of being icy and unemotional. The hospital's director, Dr. Murchison, is forced into retirement shortly after returning from an absence due to nervous exhaustion. His replacement, Dr. Anthony Edwardes, turns out to be surprisingly young. Uncharacteristically, Petersen is immediately smitten with Edwardes, who returns her feelings.
Awards
Cast
- Addison Richards
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Art Baker
- Bill Goodwin
- Donald Curtis
- Edward Fielding
- Erskine Sanford
- Gregory Peck
- Ingrid Bergman
- Irving Bacon
- Jacqueline deWit
- Jean Acker
- John Emery
- Leo G. Carroll
- Matt Moore
- Michael Chekhov
- Norman Lloyd
- Paul Harvey
- Regis Toomey
- Rhonda Fleming
- Steven Geray
- Victor Kilian
- Wallace Ford