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Lionel Mandrake

(4,214 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:31 PM Oct 2025

Spellbound

Hitchcock's 1945 B&W classic starring Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman is now playing on Turner Classic Movies. I discovered this in desperation after trying twice to buy a DVD of the movie through Amazon.com.

Attempt number 1: The disk turned out to have only a dubbed Spanish audio track.

Attempt number 2: My Blu-Ray player refused to play the disk. Besides that, it was labeled "Full Screen". I'm not sure what that means, since the original aspect ratio was about 4/3.

There are also colorized versions out there. Here's an idea, why not colorize the woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer? Wouldn't that be an improvement?

The version playing now on TCM is a 2024 restoration. I'm so glad I got to watch it.

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Spellbound (Original Post) Lionel Mandrake Oct 2025 OP
TCM showed it last week, too. BigmanPigman Oct 2025 #1

BigmanPigman

(55,527 posts)
1. TCM showed it last week, too.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 02:43 AM
Oct 2025

I watched it. I've seen it before and I think it isn't one of his better films. TCM must have been doing a series of Hitchcock's films since Notorious was also shown.

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