Spellbound

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

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.

Music

Miklós Rózsa

Screenplay

Ben Hecht

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Novela

John Palmer

Status

Released

Release date

31/10/1945

Original language

English

Budget

US$ 2 M

Box office

US$ 7 M