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Spellbound is a 1945 American black-and-white film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The cast includes Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, and Leo G. Carroll. David O. Selznick produced the movie for Selznick International Pictures, with George Barnes serving as director of photography and James Basevi as production designer. The screenwriters were Angus MacPhail, Ben Hecht, and John Palmer, while Miklós Rózsa composed the music. William H. Ziegler edited the film, which runs for 111 minutes.
Set in New York, the narrative focuses on amnesia. The film is classified as a mystery, film noir, drama, and romance. It was distributed by United Artists and Netflix. The production had a budget of 1,500,000 and generated 7,000,000 in revenue.
Spellbound received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director. It won one Oscar, with seven total wins and six nominations. The film holds a 7.5 rating on IMDb based on 55,430 votes, a 7.39 average on TMDb from 972 votes, and a Metascore of 78. Rotten Tomatoes rates it at 86%.
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Film · TMDB
7.4When 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.
Cast
- Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen
- Gregory Peck as John Ballantine
- Leo G. Carroll as Dr. Murchison
- Michael Chekhov as Dr. Alexander Brulov
- John Emery as Dr. Fleurot
- Steven Geray as Dr. Graff
Themes
- amnesia
- black and white
- psychiatrist
- dream sequence
- freudian
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Ratings
IMDb
7.5/10
53,812 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
78/100
- Year
- 1945
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 6 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay by
- Ben Hecht
- Adaptation by
- Angus MacPhail
- Based on
- The House of Dr. Edwardes , by Hilary Saint George Saunders and Francis Beeding
- Produced by
- David O. Selznick
- Starring
- Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck
- Cinematography
- George Barnes
- Edited by
- Hal C. Kern
- Music by
- Miklós Rózsa
- Production companies
- Selznick International Pictures Vanguard Films
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release dates
- October 31, 1945 ( 1945-10-31 ) (New York City) December 28, 1945 ( 1945-12-28 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 111 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- US$1.5 million
- Box office
- US$6.4 million
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Internet Archive
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Encyclopedic overview
A still from Spellbound 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.
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