Spellbound Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Jean Acker, Rhonda Fleming
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- DVD Release Date: 10/14/2008
- Original Release: 1945
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- Sales Rank: 651
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Commentary with Author and Film Professor Thomas Schatz and Film Professor Charles Ramirez Berg; ; Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dali featurette; ; Guilt By Association: Psychoanalyzing Spellbound featurette; ; A Cinderella Story: Rhonda Fleming featurette; ; 1948 Radio Play Directed by Alfred Hitchcock; ; Peter Bogdanovich Interviews Hitchcock; ; Original Theatrical Trailer ; Still Gallery; ; Closed Caption
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Disc #1 -- Spellbound
1. Overture [:09]
2. Main Titles [1:26]
3. Green Manors [3:52]
4. A Woman Underneath [1:36]
5. Making Way for the New [1:59]
6. Handing Over The Reins [3:40]
7. Guilt Complex [3:52]
8. An Afternoon Off [2:53]
9. Lightning Strikes [5:13]
10. Doors Open [2:57]
11. Who Are You? [5:41]
12. Holding Back [5:12]
13. Room 3033 [5:10]
14. Nothing To Do With Love [6:09]
15. The Train To Rochester [6:54]
16. Unwelcome Visitors [6:00]
17. Frightened Of Lines [3:34]
18. The Razor's Edge [5:05]
19. Just A Few More Days [7:04]
20. Buried In The Brain [4:03]
21. The Dream [6:17]
22. Wanted by the Police [3:18]
23. Racing Downhill [2:46]
24. The Light Dawns [3:33]
25. I Knew Him Only Slightly [4:47]
26. An Excellent Analysis [7:08]
27. A Husband of Mine [:41]
28. Exit Music [:06]
Editorial Reviews
Behind a veil of psychoanalytic babble lies a simple tale of murder in Alfred Hitchcock's popular thriller Spellbound. During the WWII era in which the film was released, it was heralded for its intellectual use of Freudian theories to solve a murder. In retrospect, however, the film reveals psychoanalytic ideas that are simplistic and obsolete to the point of becoming comical. In spite of this, Hitchcock's tremendous ability to create suspense remains a timeless one and the film's thriller elements, combined with a series of outstanding visuals, bring Spellbound within a notch of the director's best works. The psychological elements allowed Hitchcock to be creative visually and he went to the best, hiring artist Salvador Dali to design a series of incredibly eerie dream sequences. Sadly, only a few of Dali's wonderful creations made the final cut while the others were either lost or destroyed. Hitchcock often spoke of one particularly fantastic sequence in which a statue cracked and fell apart, revealing star Ingrid Bergman beneath it. The climactic suicide scene in which the villain, having been revealed, decides to kill himself is another example of Hitchcock's willingness to experiment. Seen from the killer's perspective, the scene shows him turning the gun on himself and firing it right into the camera. The explosion appears in red and was hand-tinted onto the black-and-white image. Gregory Peck is a strong male lead playing the protagonist whose disturbed mind holds the key to the entire mystery, but Bergman steals the show as his love-struck shrink, a woman mistakenly described by one of her peers as "a human glacier." Spellbound was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor (Michael Chekhov), but went on to win for Miklos Rozsa's chilling score. Hitchcock's cameo arrives at the film's 38-minute mark, when the director can be seen exiting an elevator. Patrick Legare All Movie Guide
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