Spellbound (1945)
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
The new head of a mental institution has neuroses of his own and they begin to concern his glamorous assistant, who uncovers murder and subterfuge.
Review:
Fashionable psycho-analysis (cf. A Matter of Life and Death, The Secret Beyond the Door) souped up as entertainment. Hitch secures the contributions of Michael Chekhov and Salvador Dalí, and shakes off the interferences of producer Selznick, to deliver an intriguing film, full of memorable images, but also suffering from the false dramatics of a rather rhetorical Ben Hecht script.
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
The new head of a mental institution has neuroses of his own and they begin to concern his glamorous assistant, who uncovers murder and subterfuge.
Review:
Fashionable psycho-analysis (cf. A Matter of Life and Death, The Secret Beyond the Door) souped up as entertainment. Hitch secures the contributions of Michael Chekhov and Salvador Dalí, and shakes off the interferences of producer Selznick, to deliver an intriguing film, full of memorable images, but also suffering from the false dramatics of a rather rhetorical Ben Hecht script.
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll
Synopsis:
The new head of a mental institution has neuroses of his own and they begin to concern his glamorous assistant, who uncovers murder and subterfuge.
Review:
Fashionable psycho-analysis (cf. A Matter of Life and Death, The Secret Beyond the Door) souped up as entertainment. Hitch secures the contributions of Michael Chekhov and Salvador Dalí, and shakes off the interferences of producer Selznick, to deliver an intriguing film, full of memorable images, but also suffering from the false dramatics of a rather rhetorical Ben Hecht script.