Spellbound (1945)
Directed by Alfred
Hitchcock this film based on the novel “The House of Dr. Edwardes”
stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G.
Carroll. A new head doctor arrives at a mental hospital but is he who
he claims to be?
The plot of this film
has it's weak elements, relying initially on a “love at first
sight” motivation but otherwise is a fairly standard thriller. What
I was most interested by were the dream sequences which Salvador Dali
helped with but unfortunately these were cut down and are barely in
the film. Mostly the film is well made but it does little to stand
out and is not in the same class as Hitchcock's other films like
Vertigo (1958) for example.
3/5
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