
The Man Who Knew Too Much(1934)
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.


“This is love! Complete...reckless...violent!”
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.

Ingrid Bergman
Dr. Constance Petersen

Gregory Peck
John Ballantine

Leo G. Carroll
Dr. Murchison

Michael Chekhov
Dr. Alexander Brulov

John Emery
Dr. Fleurot

Steven Geray
Dr. Graff

Paul Harvey
Dr. Hanish

Erskine Sanford
Dr. Galt (uncredited)

Norman Lloyd
Mr. Garmes

Donald Curtis
Harry
Spellbound is a thriller, mystery, romance film released in 1945 exploring themes of amnesia, sigmund freud, black and white, psychiatrist, dream sequence, freudian. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll. 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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