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Spellbound

1945 · 111 min · Director: Alfred Hitchcock ★ IMDb 7.5 · 56,020 ratings

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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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The strongest emotional signals are Tension, Anxiety, Curiosity. Genres: Thriller, Romance, Mystery. AI estimate.

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Cast

MC
Michael Chekhov

RF
Rhonda Fleming

Mary Carmichael

JE
John Emery

Norman Lloyd

Mr. Garmes

BG
Bill Goodwin

House Detective

DC
Donald Curtis

DC
Donald Curtis

Harry

Wallace Ford

Stranger in Hotel Lobby

AB
Art Baker

Det. Lt. Cooley

Regis Toomey

Det. Sgt. Gillespie

PH
Paul Harvey

Dr. Hanish

JA
Jean Acker

Matron (uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Railway Gateman (uncredited)

RB
Richard Bartell

Ticket Taker (uncredited)

HB
Harry Brown

Gateman (uncredited)

JD
Joel Davis

John Ballantine as a Boy (uncredited)

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Jacqueline deWit

Nurse (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
★ IMDb 7.5 · 56,020 ratings
Feels mostly
Tension
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