
Spellbound

This is love! Complete...reckless...violent!
Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Oscar for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score (1946)
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Nominations
5 award nominations, including the Oscar for Best Picture (1946)
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Box office
Grossed $7M worldwide, about 4.7 times its $1.5M budget
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Setting
Set in New York
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Music
Music by Miklós Rózsa
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Cinematography
Cinematography by George Barnes
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Ben HechtScreenplay
- Hilary St George SaundersNovel
- John PalmerNovel
- Angus MacPhailScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 31, 1945
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $1.5M
- Revenue
- $7M
- Countries
- United States of America




































