Spellbound is a 1945 Alfred Hitchcock film starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Based on a psychological thriller written by Francis Beeding (a pseudonym for John Palmer and Hilary A. St. George), the plot revolves around a man (Peck) with memory loss impersonating the director of a mental asylum; he believes he killed the director, and a psychoanalyst (Bergman) who helps him get to the bottom of the mystery.