Spellbound
1945 · 111 min · Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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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.
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Spellbound (1945) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Tension 30%, Anxiety 25%, Curiosity 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
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Cast
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John Ballantine as a Boy (uncredited)
Details
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by
- Ben Hecht, Angus MacPhail, John Palmer, Hilary St George Saunders, Ben Hecht
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 1945
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Country
- United States of America
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Tension
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