Spellbound (1945)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

drama film, film noir, romance film, mystery film, thriller film, psychological drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 990 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A psychoanalyst at a Vermont hospital falls for the new director. But his strange behavior and a disturbing past make her question who he really is.

tenseromanticcerebralsuspensefuldreamlikemelancholicmysteriouspsychologically probing

What happens

Spellbound is a 1945 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, and Leo G. Carroll. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works. Although the film is based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer, the plots are dramatically different. Filming took place in the summer of 1944 in Vermont, Utah, and Los Angeles, California. Spellbound was released theatrically in New York City on Halloween 1945, after which its U.S. release expanded on December 28, 1945. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a major box-office success, grossing $6.4 million in the United States and breaking ticket sales records in London. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won Best Original Score. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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