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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 7, 1999
• R2: 4 Oct 2004
Budget $1,696,377
Running Time
1 hour, 51 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Selznick International Pictures, Vanguard Films Inc.
Studio United Artists
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Other Titles
• Spellbound (1945)
• Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound
• The House of Dr. Edwardes
• Ich kämpfe um dich (1952)
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Drama, Suspense, Psychodrama, Murder, Love, Escape, Doctor, Disturbing, Mental Institution, Surreal, Mental Illness
Tagline: The Maddest Love that ever possessed a woman
Plot: Drawing on psychoanalysis to frame a transcendent love story, Alfred Hitchcock's SPELLBOUND is a mind-bending study of just how far people might go to escape trauma or to pursue passion. Gregory Peck is introduced as Dr. Edwardes, the newly arrived director of a mental asylum. However, when Edwardes starts displaying strange behavior in a meeting with the staff, Dr. Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) begins to suspect that all is not right with him. Edwardes proves to actually be John Ballantine, a patient suffering from amnesia--and a consuming dread in relation to the missing Dr. Edwardes. As suspicion of murder falls over Ballantine, the icy Peterson finds herself growing more and more emotionally attached to him and more and more convinced that curing his amnesia is the key to proving his innocence. Retreating to an upstate residence, Peterson enlists the help of leading psychoanalyst Dr. Brulov (Michael Chekhov). Pursuing the truth of the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Edwardes leads deep into the tangled mindscape of Ballantine and proves that danger is very close indeed. To illustrate the psychological journey Ballantine undergoes, the film includes a captivating dream sequence designed by the legendary surrealist painter Salvador Dali.
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 | Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird, Cape Fear, Roman Holiday |
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Out of the Past, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Spiral Staircase | John Emery
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, The Girl Can't Help It, Rocketship X-M | Norman Lloyd
Dead Poets Society, The Age of Innocence, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle | |
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Miklós Rózsa
Ben-Hur, Double Indemnity, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid |
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