SPELLBOUND Presented by Ankita Podder ( Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)

Posted by Ankita Podder September 29, 2019

SPELLBOUND Presented by Ankita Podder ( Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University)

Psychological MYSTERY thriller film

"SPELLBOUND"(1945)

PLOT

Dr.Petersen is a psychoanalyst. The director of the hospital, Dr. Murchison. His replacement is Dr. Anthony Edwardes who turns out to be surprisingly young.

But Petersen notices that this Edwardes has a peculiar about sets of parallel lines against a white background. She also soon realizes, by comparing handwriting, that this man is not the real Edwardes, but an impostor.

He confides to her that he has killed the real Edwardes and has taken his place. He suffers from massive and does not know who he is. Petersen believes he is innocent and that he is suffering from a He disappears overnight, leaving a note for her.

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 murdered.

Petersen manages to track him down and starts to use her psychoanalytic training to break his amnesia and find out what really happened.Dr. Alexander Brulov Petersen's former mentor.

The two doctors analyze a dream that Brown had. The dream sequence is full of psychoanalytic symbols – eyes, curtains, scissors, playing cards a man with no face, a man falling off a building, a man hiding behind a chimney and dropping a wheel, and being pursued by large wings.

They deduce that Brown and Edwardes had been on a ski trip together and that Edwardes had somehow died there. Petersen and Brown go to the Gabriel Valley ski resot to reenact the event.

Near the bottom of the hill, Brown suddenly recovers from his. He recalls that there is a precipice in front of them, over which Edwardes fell to his death. He stops them just in time.

He also remembers a traumatic event from his childhood – he slid down a hand rail with his brother at the bottom, accidentally knocking him onto sharp-pointed railings, killing him. This incident had caused him to develop a guilt.hat his real name is John Ballantyne.Ballantyne is convicted of murder and sent to prison.

After that Peterson return to her position at the hospital, where Murchison is once again the director. Murchison lets slip that he had known Edwardes slightly and did not like him, contradicting his earlier statement that they had never met.

Now suspicious, Petersen reconsiders her notes from the dream and realizes that the wheel was a revolver, and that the man hiding behind the chimney and dropping the wheel was Murchison, who shot Edwardes and then dropped the gun.

Dr.Peterson confronts Murchison. He confesses but says that he still has the gun and threatens to kill her. She walks away, the gun pointed at her, explaining that while the first murder was committed under the circumstances of Murchison's fragile mental state, her murder would certainly lead him to the electric chair.

He allows her to leave then turns the gun on himself. Petersen is then reunited with Ballantyne. Petersen married Brown.later they leave on their honeymoon.

32:20 first of all Petersen have a doubt on Edwardes, to clarify that she is try to verify his signature. After doing this she is 100% sure that the person who is claiming himself by Edwardes he is wrong person.

Petersen try to know that who is he?

Now the person try to answer Petersen's question's

Petersen trying to convince him to trust with her.

At '37:10'the person wrote a letter for Peterson.

At '1:26:52 'The person was remembering the history,which was happened with him.

The Mader was held.

Dr.Petersen notice dr.Murchison involved the mudder.

At '1:54:23sec 'Dr.Murchison want to kill Dr.Peterson.The gun work like a narrator.

When Petersen know the person is John Brown & he is suffering from ''Amnesia'' Petersen manages to track him down and starts to use her psychoanalytic training to break his amnesia and find out what really happened.

happened.