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Spellbound

7.7

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Original title

Spellbound

Year

1945

Running time

111 min.

Country

United States

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Screenwriter

Ben Hecht. Novel: Francis Beeding

Cast

Music

Miklós Rózsa

Cinematography

George Barnes (B&W)

Producer

Selznick International Pictures

Genre

Mystery. Romance | Medical

Synopsis

Dr. Anthony Edwardes, sent to replace Dr. Murchison as head of Green Manors mental hospital, is an impostor. When Murchinson calls the police, Edwardes leaves, followed by Dr. Constance Peterson, who has fallen in love with him and wants to treat his amnesia. She believes he is a medical doctor whose name is John. Skiing down a long slope, accompanied by Constance, John relives the memory of his brother being impaled on an iron fence with parallel bars, an accident for which he feels responsible. Police find the real Dr. Edwardes' dead body and John is accused of his murder.

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Rankings Position

#58 Best Movies of the '40s
#62 Best Mystery Films
#74 Best Romantic Movies in the history of film

Awards: 1945: Oscar: Music. Nominated for Picture, Director, Supp. Actor, Cinematography, F/X.

1945: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Actress (Ingrid Bergman)

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Critics' reviews

The imagery is sometimes overblown (...) and the dream sequences designed by Dalí are exactly what you'd expect; but there are moments, especially towards the end, when the images and ideas really work together.

Time Out
"The Salvador Dalí-designed dream sequence is still a dazzler, and deciphering it points to the real killer. Analysis the way it oughta be!"

Entertainment Weekly
"One of Hitchcock's most romantic and popular '40s movies; it's also the source of most of Mel Brooks' parody High Anxiety"

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
"A fascinating, grim, exciting motion picture, based on the current popular interest in psychiatry, and illustrating a new method of crime detection"

Boston Globe
"A seductive blend of mystery, psychology and soap opera"

Miami Herald
"An intriguing Hitchcock thriller which probes the dark recesses of a man's mind through psychoanalytic treatment and the love of a woman."

TV Guide
"An intriguing Hitchcockian study of role reversal, with doctors and patients, men and women, mothers and sons inverting their assigned relationships with compelling, subversive results."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader
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