Spellbound

Spellbound

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

NR 1945 · 111 min · ★ 7.4 (1K) · Thriller, Mystery, Romance

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.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Written by Ben Hecht

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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
Donald Curtis Harry
Rhonda Fleming Mary Carmichael
Bill Goodwin House detective

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