Spellbound in 35mm

Spellbound in 35mm

Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck teamed up for one of director Alfred Hitchcock’s most commercially successful films, a romantic mystery with striking dream imagery provided by artist Salvador Dalí. Bergman plays Dr. Constance Petersen, the only female psychologist at tony Green Manors mental hospital, who becomes attracted to the hospital’s new director, Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Peck). When Petersen discovers that Edwardes seems to be as troubled as any of her patients, she investigates his dreams for clues to the mystery that surrounds him and asks the question suggested by the film’s original poster: “Will he kiss me or kill me?”

DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock. WRITTEN BY: Ben Hecht. ADAPTATION BY: Angus MacPhail. WITH: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll. 1945. 111 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

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