Spellbound
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When Dr.Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr.Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor.The man confesses that the real Dr.Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything.Dr.Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $7M
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When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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Box Office & Release
Spellbound returned 4.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $2M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $7M
- Release date
- Nov 8, 1945
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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