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.
Direction
Hitchcock's only pure dalliance with psychological surrealism.
Cinematography
Dalí designed the dream sequence—eyeballs on scissors, enough said.
Acting
Bergman's smoldering intellect versus Peck's vulnerable confusion.
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman
Dr. Constance Petersen
Gregory Peck
John Ballantine
Leo G. Carroll
Dr. Murchison
Michael Chekhov
Dr. Alexander Brulov
John Emery
Dr. Fleurot
Steven Geray
Dr. Graff
Paul Harvey
Dr. Hanish
Erskine Sanford
Dr. Galt (uncredited)
Norman Lloyd
Mr. Garmes
Donald Curtis
Harry
Rhonda Fleming
Mary Carmichael
Bill Goodwin
House detective
Art Baker
Det. Lt. Cooley
Regis Toomey
Det. Sgt. Gillespie
Wallace Ford
Hotel masher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Salvador Dalí personally designed the dream sequence, though only 20 seconds of his original 4 minutes survive.
This was Hollywood's attempt to make psychoanalysis mainstream—Freud became dinner party conversation for suburban America.
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