
Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock, 1945
The House of Dr. Edwardes
Francis Beeding (John Palmer), Hilary Saint George Saunders, 1927
Spellbound is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1945 and based on the book The House of Dr. Edwardes by Francis Beeding (John Palmer) and Hilary Saint George Saunders, first published in 1927. The movie features Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, and others.
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Storyline
Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a therapeutic community mental hospital in Vermont. At the same time, it becomes public knowledge that the supposed Edwardes is an impostor, and that the real Edwardes is missing and may have been killed.
Movie vs Book

Year
1945
Minutes
111
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb

Year
1927
Pages
314
Book Rate
6.64
S: Goodreads
Book
The House of Dr. Edwardes
Country: UK
First published in: 1927
Length: 314 pages
Genre: Fiction
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