Spellbound (1945)

This blog takes a detour to register some plot summaries I wrote back in 1988, of films I watched that year. They were written in Portuguese, and I will be translating them to English.

*SPOILERS FOLLOW*

Constance Petersen is a psychoanalyst at a psychoanalysis institute. Its director is about to be replaced. The new director, Dr. Edwardes, arrives, except it is not him, but John Ballantyne, an impostor. Ballantyne suffers from amnesia. He flees. Petersen, who has fallen in love with him, goes after him. The real Dr. Edwardes is missing and Ballantyne, who was passing himself off as him, is suspected of having murdered him. But Petersen believes in his innocence and tries to cure him of his amnesia. The two hide in the house of an old professor of Constance's. Ballantyne goes skiing with Petersen and saves her from an accident. It is then that he remembers a childhood episode in which he accidentally provoked his brother's death. Then he recovers his memory and remembers that Dr. Edwardes died in a skiing accident. However, when the body is found, it is revealed that Edwardes was shot. Ballantyne is arrested. Petersen, guided by a dream of Ballantyne's, discovers that the real murderer was Dr. Murchison, the former director. Ballantyne is released.