Spellbound

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Molly D @RT95902486 Aug 23 You don’t understand. I am 16 years old and when I say I saw this movie for the first time and i was appalled, I am NOT lying, this is genuinely one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. See more Leaburn O @RT35452347 Feb 3 Only Hitchcock could direct such a preposterous plot and still make it watchable. Has all his hallmarks and this time a deep Freudian fascination too. Peck is great and Bergman is too until the final laughable twenty minutes. Watched on DVD. See more A T. @AThompson Jan 26 Fascinating look into trauma and the subconscious mind. Loved the stellar cast with a such a great auteur director in Hitchcock! See more Kyle M @RT77296778 Nov 3 Delving into the psychoanalytical angle prompted mere glances like basic textbook whilst unfolding a crime is moderately engaging alongside the showcased chemistry of Peck and Bergman’s professionally humane performances towards a cheesy end, mindfully summing an average picture beneath a Hitchcockian manifestation. (B) See more Farah R @Farah 04/12/2025 Slightly confusing and overacted, Spellbound isn't among Hitchcock's best, but it's watchable because it's well-made. See more Sarfaraz A @RT40602226 12/06/2024 Alfred Hitchcock directed the film, which was based on Francis Beeding's novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes" and scripted by Ben Hecht and Angus MacPhail. Starring my favorites Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, but Miklos Rozsa won the Oscar for Best Music-Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. About a potentially murderous amnesiac imposter and the psychoanalyst who falls in love with him. Ingrid Bergman plays the role of Dr. Constance Peterson, who falls in love with Dr. Edwardes, played by Gregory Peck, the new administrator of the psychiatric institution where she works. She then discovers he is a fraud and may have actually murdered the real Dr. Edwardes and replaced him. Peterson attempts to help the nervous man, who is convinced of his own guilt, to uncover the secrets locked in his mind with the newly discovered science of dream analysis. Spellbound was one of the first Hollywood films to deal with psychoanalysis. This film features an extended surrealistic dream sequences designed by Spanish artist Salvador Dali. The surrealistic dream sequence designed by Dali was originally supposed to run for 20 minutes and included a scene in which Dr. Peterson was covered with ants. Only part of the scene was filmed, and only a portion of that footage ended up in the released version. The movie version that I watched did not have this scene. The film has a strong Gregory-Ingrid chemistry. In fact, the duo mesmerized me with their delivery of sardonic dialogues. See more Read all reviews

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