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Spellbound (1945) Review

By Christopher Null

Very Good

Spellbound lands as one of Hitchcock's classics but it's far from his best work.The entire plot is one of Hitch's more absurd (adapted from the novel The House of Dr. Edwardes). Back in 1945, the idea of psychoanalysis was just coming ito its own. Freud's ideas had really taken off, and wouldn't you know it, the time was right to make a movie based on the notion.

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