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Spellbound:
         

     

           Produced by David O. Selznick and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the film was made in 1945 for Selznic- United Artists. Screenplay was written by Ben Hecht. The screen adaption was by Angus Mac Phail from the novel ‘The House of Doctor Edwards’ by Fracis Beeding.            

         The story evolves in an expensive sanitorium. The young psychiatrist (Ingrid Bergman) discovers that the newly appointed head of the department (Gvegory Peck) is equally emotionally distributed as the rest of the patients. 

            The film had breath taking dream sequences of Gregory Peck’s nightmare designed by Salvador Dali.

 

           The film was marked with imaginative picturization of sequences typical of Alfred Hitchcock. The film was a big box-office success. 

            Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck were supported by Michael Chekhov, Jean Acker, Donald Curtis, Rhonda Fleming, Leo G. Carroll, Norman Lloyd, John Emery, Paul Harvey & Steven Geray.
   

Great Expectations:          
     

          

           Made in 1946 for Falcon Films / Anglo – Amalgamated by director David Lean. The film was a screen adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. Lean Successfully kept with the high literary standards of the Charles Dickens’ creation. Even the actors also gave a high standard performance to match with the making of the film. John Mills & Valerie Hobson played the lead supported by Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie, Berhard Miles, Jean Simmons and Alec Guinness.        

   

 

            The film was photographed beautifully  by Guy Green and designed by Wilfred Shingleton.              

          DAVID LEAN made his directorial debut in Collaboration with Noel Coward with the making of ‘In Which We Serve’. The Lean-Coward collaboration made three more films ‘This Happy Breed’, ‘Blithe Spirit’ and ‘Brief Encounter’. ‘Brief Encounter’ was followed by ‘GREAT EXPACTATION’ first film by David Lean without Noel Coward. He also made ‘Oliver Twist’ (1948) another adaptation of a novel by Charles Dickens.         

   

Notorious:         

     

 

           Produced & Directed by Alfred Hitchcock for R.K.O. Radio in 1946 Notorious had a plot revolving around uranium. It was the period just after the detonation of first atomic bomb. The plot created a sensation and Hitchcock had been under surveillance for a short time by F.B.I. 

            Cary Grant played a US Secret Agent, who suspected the daughter of a convicted Nazi spy (played by Ingrid Bergman) of a lack of loyalty, but eventually fell in love with her. To prove her patriotism she married the villain (played by Claude Rains).          

              She helps the hero and uncovers the secret of locked wine cellar where they find the bottle containing uranium. 

            Louis Cathern supported Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains. Ben Hecht wrote the film.

             The film was a big box-office success grossing over 8 million dollars.
        

                      

        

 

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