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| United Artists | Release Date: December 28, 1945 |
Starring:
Bill Goodwin, Donald Curtis, Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, John Emery, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov, Norman Lloyd, Rhonda Fleming, Steven Geray
Summary:
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
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A fascinating, grim, exciting motion picture, based on the current popular interest in psychiatry, and illustrating a new method of crime detection. [25 Jan 1946, p.17]
The clues keep leading to increasingly darker thickets. [27 Apr 2001]
Despite its stars, the film is probably best known for the surreal dream sets provided by artist Salvador Dali. [26 Feb 1998, p.35]
The gaudy Freudianism of this 1945 Hitchcock film, backed by a dream sequence designed by Salvador Dalí and an overexcited score by Miklós Rósza, can make it hard to take, but beneath the facile trappings there is an intriguing Hitchcockian study of role reversal, with doctors and patients, men and women, mothers and sons inverting their assigned relationships with compelling, subversive results.
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Yet, with all the obvious ingredients for success, Spellbound is a disaster.
Jan 12, 2022
Like many of Hitchcock's pre-1950s films, this one may also seem a bit dated and old-fashioned, but the years make no dent in its more-than-clever direction and the excellent work of its actors. A spectacular Ingrid Bergman and a more than solid Gregory Peck.
One of Hithcock's best without a doubt.
One of Hithcock's best without a doubt.
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