Spellbound

USA - 1945 - black and white

Written by:
Ben Hecht
Angus MacPhail

Based upon the novel by:
Francis Beeding

Cinematography by:
George Barnes

Production design by:
James Basevi
John Ewing

Costume design by:
Howard Greer

Music by:
Miklós Rózsa

Film editing by:
Hal C. Kern
William H. Ziegler

Produced by:
David O. Selznick

  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.
Salvador Dalě designed the scene paintings of the dream sequence.

 


 


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