Mysterious thriller with Ingrid Bergman. 1945. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychoanalyst at a mental hospital and the only female doctor. The other doctors find her emotionless and detached.
When the director of the hospital is forced to retire, the much younger Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) replaces him. Constance and Anthony fall in love very quickly but she realizes that he's hiding something.
After comparing handwriting, Constance learns that the man that she has fallen in love with is an imposter. He confesses that he killed the real Dr. Edwardes, but is that really true? Constance doesn't want to believe him because she's sure that he's wrong.
He's suffering from a massive amnesia but one thing that Constance can be sure of about his past is that he experienced something that gave him a great phobia of dark lines on a white background. What happened that gave him amnesia, and is he's not the real murderer, who is?
I just got to say that Gregory Peck is absolutely marvelous in this movie. A great actor. Ingrid Bergman is also very good, but Gregory Peck is the one that I noticed as the best actor in this particular movie.
There's a scene in this film by Salvador Dalí, but I can't see why it's so much to talk about. You can understand that he has done it, but it's not like I find it to be such a masterpiece as some people seem to think. I like Hitchcock more.
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