SPELLBOUND Presented by Ankita Podder ( Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)
SPELLBOUN PLOT Dr. Constance Petersen ( Ingrid Bergman ) is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a therapeutic community mental hospital in Vermont . She is perceived by the other (male) doctors as detached and emotionless. The director of the hospital, Dr. Murchison ( Leo G. Carroll ), is being forced into retirement, shortly after returning from an absence due to nervous exhaustion. His replacement is Dr. Anthony Edwardes ( Gregory Peck ), who turns out to be surprisingly young. Petersen notices that this Edwardes has a peculiar phobia about sets of parallel lines against a white background. She also soon realizes, by comparing handwriting, that this man is not the real Edwardes, but...