Spellbound

1945 111 min Thriller, Mystery, Romance

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.

IMDb 7.5 RT 86 Metacritic 78

budget $1,500,000 earnings $7,000,000 return 4.7x

director Alfred Hitchcock

writers Ben Hecht, Angus MacPhail

cast