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Angus MacPhail has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1950s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Spellbound.
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When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Dir. Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer · With Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick · With Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Gordon Jackson
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