Spellbound (1945)

Silly, psychologically naive potboiler produced during Hitchcock's years as a slave to David O. Selznick. That it works at all is due to the Master's extraordinary formal command and his expert building of suspense -- the scene with Gregory Peck and the straight razor should be shown in film schools everywhere as a directorial model to emulate. A fine performance by Ingrid Bergman helps offset the somewhat bland one by Peck. Gotta love that Dali dream sequence...

Grade: C+