I've been trying to watch this movie since Thursday and finally got it finished yesterday. This is in no way a dig on the film, which is excellent. That's just how busy I have been lately. But whatever. None of that matters.As the picture says, this is Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound and it is suitable only for adults. Not because it's raunchy but because it's very heavily-laden with psychiatric terms. Unless you want to explain retrograde amnesia and fugue states to your kids, in which case, knock yourself out.
Dr. Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman) is a staff psychiatrist at Green Manors. Her boss, Dr. Murchison (Leo G. Carroll) is retiring and being replaced by Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck), a young, hot psychiatrist. Constance immediately feels a connection to Edwardes, despite finding out that he's actually an impostor.
Yeah, see, he remembers being somewhere with the real Dr. Edwardes but can't for the life of him remember what happened to him or why he had come to steal his identity. Constance has to help him piece together who he really is and what happened to Dr. Edwardes before he is arrested for murder.
I hate to say anything negative about Hitchcock but this one really seems dated. A lot of the psychoanalytic theories he uses here are no longer regarded by modern therapists as valid and it comes off a little silly. I will say that suspense-wise it is top-notch, as always.
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