Spellbound
by Alfred Hitchcock
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Actor: Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov, Rhonda FlemingDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Brand: MGM HOME VIDEO (UNDER FOX)
Cinematographer: George Barnes
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: Angus MacPhail
Writer: Ben Hecht
Writer: Hilary St. George Sanders
Writer: John Palmer
Writer: May E. Romm
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product features:
- Dr. Constance Peterson (Bergman) is a dedicated psychiatrist who puts all her passion into her work - until she falls in love with Dr. Edwards (Peck). Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that Edwards is an impostor - an amnesiac - who may or may not be a cold-blooded murderer. Pursued by the police, Constance must decide whether to turn in her mysterious lover. or risk her life by trying to unlo
DVD Reviews of Spellbound
DVD Review: Spellbound
Summary: 5 Stars
Spellbound is just what its title indicates. It keeps you on the edge of your seat and is one of the better who-done-its to be put on film. Ingrid Bergman is excellent as the psychiatrist who takes a more-than-clinical interest in her patient, Gegory Peck. She is, as most women tend to be, irrational in her views of events due to her infatuation with Peck and his intriguing portions of memory. When she gets close to the answers, she turns totally female, ignoring her training and duty to remaain impartial, and refuses to push for the whole truth for fear it will prove her new-found love for Peck is misplaced.
Spellbound is typically Hithcock - a convoluted, red-herring-filled tale which, if you haven't seen it before, leads you to conclusion after wrong conclusion until the very end. Excellent supporting cast lends authenticity to an already marvelous acting job by the leads. Fabulous tale told by the Master.
DVD Review: A Classic...
Summary: 5 Stars
As a mental health professional, this movie is a great representation of the power of the unconscious mind. A time honored aspect of the discipline that has been lost on more Band-Aid like contemporary forms of treatment offered to the public.DVD Review: Flips The Script With A Vengeance!
Summary: 5 Stars
I know full well that this 1945 thriller is not considered to be among Hitchcock's best, and is often found wanting when compared to his other works-like Notorious, for example. However, Spellbound is my favorite Hitchcock film, one of the reasons being that it flips the script on what is typically done in the cinema.
Usually in movies it is the damsel who is in distress, and the hero who must rescue this poor woman, but in this story it is the man who is in dire straits and the heroine who is the rescuer. The character of JB is a beautiful, troubled, vulnerable, and possibly dangerous young man who desperately needs the woman he's fallen in love with to save his life-even though he may fight her at times. I also love the fact that JB, as portrayed by Gregory Peck, looks every inch the conventional hero-tall, dark, handsome, broad shouldered, seemingly cool and self confident-but his exterior deceives. Mr. Peck plays his role to sweet perfection, as does Ms. Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen-the woman who risks her career, and possibly her very own life, to save JB. Bergman's character is incredibly strong to go through what she does in this film, and she is perhaps the smartest character in the movie( except for Dr.Bruloff, "the Biggest Brain in all of Science!").
And could any movie pairing then, or today, beat Bergman and Peck as a couple? They are, not only the best looking pair that I've ever feasted my unworthy eyes upon, but their chemistry is amazing. There is a profound sweetness and a desperate yearning between them that I can only compare to tunnel vision-only they exist and to hell with everyone else!
Spellbound is a haunting love story and an edge- of -your- seat thriller that is my favorite thriller! It's such a pity that Bergman and Peck never did another movie together. Oh, well. You can't have them all, as they say.
DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Spellbound is not one of Hitchcock's best (the psychoanalysis angle is pretty dated and it never generates a high level of tension) but it's a well-made mystery with several standout scenes and an inspired Dali dream sequence.
DVD Review: Excellent storytelling
Summary: 5 Stars
Let's face it folks, these days, movies that tell good solid stories are very hard to come by...If you are the type of movie watcher who enjoys a really great story, then Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound is good for you...
If you've never seen it before, you won't be disappointed, and you won't be able to look away from the screen. If you've seen it before, it will be just as good the next time around. Spellbound
Description of Spellbound
While suffering from amnesia a mental patient assumes the identity of the director of the mental hospital. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 02/10/2009 Starring: Gregory Peck Leo G Carroll Run time: 118 minutes Director: Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock takes on Sigmund Freud in this thriller in which psychologist Ingrid Bergman tries to solve a murder by unlocking the clues hidden in the mind of amnesiac suspect Gregory Peck. Among the highlights is a bizarre dream sequence seemingly designed by Salvador Dali--complete with huge eyeballs and pointy scissors. Although the film is in black and white, the original release contained one subliminal blood-red frame, appearing when a gun pointed directly at the camera goes off. Spellbound is one of Hitchcock's strangest and most atmospheric films, providing the director with plenty of opportunities to explore what he called "pure cinema"--i.e., the power of pure visual associations. Mikl?s R?zsa's haunting score (which features a creepy theremin) won an Oscar, and the movie was nominated for best picture, director, supporting actor (Michael Chekhov), cinematography, and special visual effects. --Jim Emerson
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