Today’s movie is a psychological mystery drama with a scene
that happens on April 2. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
SPELLBOUND
The emotionally repressed Dr.
Constance Peterson works at Green Manors, a memtal hospital. The head Dr.
Murchison, returns after a vacation and is being forced into retirement due to
mental exhauston. He is replaced by Dr. Anthony Edwardes, who soon exhibits a
strange phobia about parallel lines. Dr. Peterson figures out that Edwardes is
an omposter and he confesses to her that he killed the real Dr. Edwardes, but
that he has amenesia and does not know who he really is. Peterson believes he
is really innocent. Edwardes On April 2, 1944 [33:15 to 38:27] the nurse of the
real Dr. Edwardes arrives and confirms the other man is a fake and the police
start looking for him, but he has already fled to New York, using the name John
Brown . Peterson follows and finds him. She takes him to Dr. Brulov where they
try to unlock John Brown’s memory. They use his fear of parallel lines and a
drem full of images such as wings, a man dropping a wheel and a man fallin off
a building to deduce that he and the real Edwardes had gone on a ski trip
together. Peterson and Brown go to the ski resort and discover that Edwardes
fell to his death over a ledge and that a traumatic event from his childhood
caused Brown to forget his real edentity as John Ballentyne. Edwardes death is
reclassified as murder whe it is discovered
he dies from being shot, not from a fall. Ballantyne is arrested and
coinvicted. Back at Green Manors contradictory statements from Dr. Murchison
convince Peterson that he shot Edwardes. She confronts him, and he confesses,
then commits suicide, clearing Ballantyne.
One of Hitchcock’s more confusing
films. Famous for the dream sequence designed by Salvador Dali.
Hotel registration cards of yesterday (43:05), when he
arrived show 4/2/44 at 43:18
Director - Alfred Hitchcock
Producer - David O. Selznick
Screenwriter - Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht
Awards – The film won the Best
Original Score Oscar. The film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor in a
Supporting Role (Chekhov), Best Director, Best Black and White Cinematography,
and Best Special Effects at the 18th Academy Awards.
Released – December 28, 1945
Runtime - 1 hour 51
minutes
Starring – Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen,
Gregory Peck as Dr. Anthony Edwardes / John Ballantyne, Michael Chekhov as Dr.
'Alex' Brulov, Leo G. Carroll as Dr. Murchison, Rhonda Fleming as Mary
Carmichael, John Emery as Dr. Fleurot, Steven Geray as Dr. Graff, Paul Harvey
as Dr. Hanish, Norman Lloyd as Mr. Garmes, Bill Goodwin as House detective of
Empire State Hotel
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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