Spellbound

Spellbound

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

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Release Date

11/8/1945

Runtime

111 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$1,500,000

Revenue

$7,000,000

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A fevered Hitchcockian mystery where a woman falls in love with a man who can't remember who he is, and together they chase fragments of a fractured memory through dreamscapes and dark corridors. The film moves between clinical precision and delirious psychological intensity.

Mood

TenseRomanticWistfulParanoid

Themes

IdentityMemoryLove

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Brisk

Look

Black and whiteFormalistHigh-contrast

Structure

Nonlinear

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