Spellbound
1945, NR, 116 min.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Rhonda Fleming, Leo G. Carroll, Norman Lloyd.

This is the one Hitchcock film you can count on all psychology and art students to have seen. The film uses psychiatric methodology to solve a murder for which amnesiac Peck is being framed. Bergman is the loving psychiatrist who draws out his fractured memories. Artwise, surrealist supreme Salvador Dali designed Spellbound’s famous dream sequence.

This article appears in August 18 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.