Spellbound
USA - 1945 - black and white
Written by: Ben Hecht Angus MacPhail Based upon the novel by: Cinematography by: Production
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Cast Ingrid Bergman (Dr. Constance Peterson) Gregory Peck (John Ballantine) Michael Chekhov (Dr. Alex Brulov) Leo G. Carroll (Dr. Murchison) Rhonda Fleming (Mary Carmichael) John Emery (Dr. Fleurot) Norman Lloyd (Garmes) Bill Goodwin (detective) Steven Geray (Dr. Graff) Donald Curtis (Harry) Wallace Ford (stranger) Art Baker (lieutenant Cooley) Regis Toomey (sergeant Gillespie) Paul Harvey (Dr. Hanish) |
The
head of a mental asylum, Dr. Murchinson, is replaced by
Dr. Edwards. The new director is soon attracted to the beautiful and cold Dr. Constance Petersen. They fall in love, but dr. Petersen discovers that Dr. Edwards is a paranoid amnesiac imposter named John Ballantine. What has happened to the real Dr. Edwards? Constance finds out that John was in the mountains with Dr. Edwards and he thinks to be the killer of the famous psychiatrist. Together they reach the place of the murder. Ballantine has a crysis: when he was a child, he had killed his little brother by mistake. He is not Edwards' murderer. Constance goes on searching for the real killer and suspects on the old director. When she tells him, Dr. Murchinson is forced to confess he didn't wish to leave his work in the clinic and so he killed the new director. After the confession the man takes his pistol and kills himself. After all this
is a love story surrounded by suspense and psychological
devices. |
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