Spellbound Movie by Alfred Hitchcock

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Title
Spellbound

Year
1945

Director
Alfred Hitchcock

Screenplay
Angus MacPhail, Angus MacPhail (adapted from a novel by Francis Beeding)

Overview
(Amazon.com) Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist with a firm understanding of human nature-or so she thinks. When the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) becomes the new chief of staff at her institution, the bookish and detached Constance plummets into a whirlwind of tangled identities and feverish psychoanalysis, where the greatest risk is to fall in love. A transcendent love story replete with taut excitement and startling imagery, Spellbound is classic Hitchcock, featuring stunning performances, an Academy Award(r)-winning score by Miklos Rozsa, and a captivating dream sequence by Surrealist icon Salvador Dali.

Cast
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov

Noteworthy Facts
The dream sequence was originally meant to be much longer than in the final cut of the film and was designed by Salvado Dali.

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