Spellbound 1945

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 111 min

genre: thriller

theme: psychological thriller

director: Alfred Hitchcock

Score: 7 / 10

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 a mental hospital in Vermont. 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. Petersen is immediately smitten with him.

Awards

Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

Cast

More details

author	Angus MacPhail Ben Hecht John Palmer
award	Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
contentLocation	New York
director	Alfred Hitchcock
editor	Hal C. Kern
events	amnesia
genre	mystery romance thriller
keywords	arrest bullet wound cheat fall force guilt complex innocent man insanity defense kill kiss married mask mental hospital murder new york city phobia plead insanity psychoanalyst shoot ski ski lodge suffer survivor guilt vermont
musicBy	Miklós Rózsa
nomination	Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Special Effects Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
producer	David O. Selznick
productionCompany	Selznick International Pictures Vanguard Films
publisher	United Artists
theme	film noir mystery thriller psychoanalysis psychological thriller