Spellbound (1945 film)

Spellbound is a 1945 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll. It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel The House of Dr. Edwardes 1927 by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer.

The film opens with Shakespeares proverb, and words on the screen announcing that its purpose is to highlight the virtues of psychoanalysis in banishing mental illness and restoring reason.Dr. Constance Petersen Ingrid Bergman is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a mental hospital in Vermont, and is perceived by the other male doctors as detached and emotionless. Another one of the doctors tries to kiss her to no effect. The director of the hospital, Dr. Murchison Leo G. Carroll, is being forced into retirement, shortly after returning from an absence due to nervous exhaustion. His replacement is the much younger Dr. Anthony Edwardes Gregory Peck. ........

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