![]() Edwardes is played by young Gregory Peck, who became an Oscar nominee himself that year for The Keys of the Kingdom. “Hot” is the word for the ruggedly handsome new doc on the block, especially considering Dr. Anthony Edwardes, is supposed to be hot stuff. Murchison go, even though his imminent replacement, the renowned Dr. Constance and the staff are sorry to see Dr. Carroll) is about to retire, albeit reluctantly. Murchison (veteran Hitchcock player Leo G. ![]() Well, I can tell you from family therapy experience that sometimes it takes a few tries with a few different therapists to find one you really click with-and Constance soon discovers love can work that way, too, when Green Manors’ elderly head honcho Dr. If you could see Constance’s feet now, you’d see bobby sox on her feet! *swoon!* He says, “You approach all your problems with an ice pack on your head….I’m trying to convince you that your lack of human and emotional experience is bad for you as a doctor.and fatal for you as a woman.” Constance wryly replies, “I’ve heard that argument from a number of amorous psychiatrists who all wanted to make a better doctor of me.” Fleurot (John Emory), who’s a bit of a scholarly wolf in shrink’s clothing, is always trying to pitch woo at Constance, but she’s just not that into him. Constance brims with book smarts, but her people smarts still need fine-tuning. Constance Petersen, the youngest member of the crackpot, er, crack team of psychoanalysts at Green Manors, a posh psychiatric institution. The lovely, luminous, gentle-voiced Ingrid Bergman plays Dr. In fact, Spellbound’s more dated aspects, like its approach to psychotherapy, intrigues me when I think of how these things have changed over time. Romm’s foreword (which has also been attributed to screenwriter Ben Hecht) endearingly earnest. Got all that? Yeah, it may sound quaint in today’s more sophisticated, complicated world, but somehow I find Dr. Once the complexes that have been disturbing the patient are uncovered and interpreted, the illness and confusion disappear….and the devils of unreason are driven from the human soul.” The analyst seeks only to induce the patient to talk about his hidden problems, to open the locked doors of his mind. “Our story deals with psychoanalysis, the method by which modern science treats the emotional problems of the sane. After the literally breezy opening credits, Spellbound sets the stage with a foreword by the film’s medical advisor, Dr. ![]() I first saw it on WPIX-TV on a Sunday afternoon when I was a youngster in the Bronx. To wrap up The Amnesia Trilogy, here’s the amnesia film that started it all, at least for me: Alfred Hitchcock’s Oscar-winning thriller Spellbound.
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