Spellbound (1945) Movie poster and book cover compared.

Spellbound

Alfred Hitchcock, 1945

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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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RATING

7.6

/ 10

Movie Poster: Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)

6.6

/ 10

Book Cover: The House of Dr. Edwardes (Francis Beeding (John Palmer), Hilary Saint George Saunders, 1927)

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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

Poster of Spellbound, the 1945 movie by Alfred Hitchcock

Year

1945

Minutes

111

Movie Rate

7.60

Source: IMDb

Cover of The House of Dr. Edwardes, the 1927 book by Francis Beeding (John Palmer) and Hilary Saint George Saunders

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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Poster of Spellbound, the 1945 movie by Alfred Hitchcock

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Cover of The House of Dr. Edwardes, the 1927 book by Francis Beeding (John Palmer) and Hilary Saint George Saunders

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