Spellbound

Screen Director's Playhouse, Stars, Joseph Cotton, Mercedes-Mikainbridge, Production, Spellbound, Director, Alfred Hitchcock. This is the Screen Director's Playhouse, the Thursday night feature on NBC's All-Star Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery and Drama. Brought to you by the makers of Amazon for the fast relief from the pain of headache, neuritis and uralgia, and RCA Victor,

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The prime desire of an emotion picture meter is to entertain his audience. But occasionally an idea is presented that can prove to be both entertaining and instructive. When we achieve such a wedding of qualities, we feel we really have something.

And this was the case in the story you are about to hear. Spellbound was the first motion picture to deal with psychoanalysis, the method by which modern science treats the emotional problems of the same.

The analyst seeks only to induce the patient to talk about his hidden problems, to open the locked doors of his mind. Once the complexes that are disturbing the patient are uncovered and interpreted, the illness confusion of the patient disappear and the devils of unreason are driven from the human soul. To portray the roles of Dr. Edwards and Dr. Constance Peterson we are

indeed fortunate to have Mr. Joseph Cartman and Ms. Mercedes McCambridge and now the first act of spellbound which begins in the office of Dr. Constance Peterson a psychiatrist on the staff of Green Manors in Vermont.

Dr. Peterson, I've been watching your work for six months. It's brilliant, but lifeless.