Spellbound (1945)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Cinematography by George Barnes
Approved111 min65 frames
ThrillerMysteryRomance
This is love! Complete...reckless...violent!
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What is Spellbound about?
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 is a 1945 American psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, and Leo G. Carroll. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works. Although the film is based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer, the plots are dramatically different.
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What does the cinematography of Spellbound look like?
Across 65 sampled frames, Spellbound builds its coverage from medium shots (43% of the sample), with close-ups (35%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer George Barnes keeps 34% of it in soft, low-key light. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 65% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of Spellbound?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Spellbound (1945) are #030303, #cbcbcb, #2f2f2f, #8a8a8a, #fafafa, #474747 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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