When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Spellbound has generally received very positive reviews.
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Spellbound was released in 1945 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 38 reviews, giving Spellbound (1945) an average rating of 76%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 80% and users giving an average score of 83%.
With a score of 76%, Spellbound is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1945, which stands at 61%.
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