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Spellbound

Spellbound

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 1945

Runtime

1h 51m

Genres

Thriller, Mystery, Romance

User Score

74%

Original Title

Spellbound

Production Companies

Selznick International Pictures, Vanguard Films

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Budget

$1,500,000

Revenue

$7,000,000

Description

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.