Spellbound

1945 · directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Rating

77/100

Hit

no

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.

Spellbound (1945), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, rates 77/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Ingrid Bergman
• Gregory Peck
• Michael Chekhov
• Leo G. Carroll
• Rhonda Fleming
• John Emery
• Norman Lloyd
• Bill Goodwin
• Steven Geray
• Donald Curtis

Crew

• George Barnes — Director of Photography
• Hal C. Kern — Editor
• Miklós Rózsa — Original Music Composer
• Angus MacPhail — Screenplay
• Ben Hecht — Screenplay

More from Alfred Hitchcock

1. Rear Window (1954) — 100/100 · hit
2. North by Northwest (1959) — 99/100 · hit
3. Vertigo (1958) — 99/100 · hit
4. Psycho (1960) — 99/100 · hit
5. Rebecca (1940) — 89/100 · hit
6. Notorious (1946) — 86/100 · hit

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