Movie No. 101 (2013): SPELLBOUND

Spellbound (1945)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck

The movie is quite dated. Had I seen it in 1945 or a few years after, I would have showered it with more praises. But, I still find it enjoyable and entertaing despite having seen it just recently.

The movie is a romantic psychological drama. It opens with the professional medical staff of a posh mental asylum waiting for the new director. The director, when he shows up, turns out to be a young and handsome doctor. The staff expects someone who is old, the author of a famous book on psychiatry. One of the resident doctors suspects the new director as traumatized amnesiac; she even suspects that the new director has murdered the real new director. She hatches a scheme to uncover the identity of the new director, but her plans boomerang into her when she falls in love with the new director. Now, she has to save him.

This is not typical Hitchcock but it still creates thrill and suspense.

Rating: 3.5/4.0

Date seen: April 22, 2013