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白い恐怖 【DVD】 価格:1,279円 (2018/11/30 11:30時点) 感想(0件)

Plot
Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a therapeutic community mental hospital in Vermont. She is perceived by the other (male) doctors as detached and emotionless. The director of the hospital, Dr. Murchison (Leo G. Carroll), is being forced into retirement, shortly after returning from an absence due to nervous exhaustion. His replacement is Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck), who turns out to be surprisingly young.
Petersen notices that this Edwardes has a peculiar phobia about sets of parallel lines against a white background. She also soon realizes, by comparing handwriting, that this man is not the real Edwardes, but an impostor. He confides to her that he has killed the real Edwardes and has taken his place. He suffers from massive amnesia and does not know who he is. Petersen believes he is innocent and that he is suffering from a guilt complex. He disappears overnight, leaving a note for her. At the same time, it becomes public knowledge that the supposed Edwardes is an impostor, and that the real Edwardes is missing and may have been murdered.
Petersen manages to track him down and starts to use her psychoanalytic training to break his amnesia and find out what really happened. Pursued by the police, Petersen and the impostor (calling himself John Brown) travel by train to Rochester, New York, where they stay with Dr. Alexander Brulov (Michael Chekhov), Petersen's former mentor.
The two doctors analyze a dream that Brown had. The dream sequence (designed by Salvador Dalí) is full of psychoanalytic symbols – eyes, curtains, scissors, playing cards (some of them blank), a man with no face, a man falling off a building, a man hiding behind a chimney and dropping a wheel, and being pursued by large wings. They deduce that Brown and Edwardes had been on a ski trip together (the lines in white being ski tracks), and that Edwardes had somehow died there. Petersen and Brown go to the Gabriel Valley ski resort (the wings provide a clue), to reenact the event.
Near the bottom of the hill, Brown suddenly recovers from his amnesia. He recalls that there is a precipice in front of them, over which Edwardes fell to his death. He stops them just in time. He also remembers a traumatic event from his childhood – he slid down a hand rail with his brother at the bottom, accidentally knocking him onto sharp-pointed railings, killing him. This incident had caused him to develop a guilt complex. He also remembers that his real name is John Ballantyne. All is understood now, and Ballantyne is about to be exonerated, when it is discovered that Edwardes had a bullet in his body. Ballantyne is convicted of murder and sent to prison.
A heartbroken Petersen returns to her position at the hospital, where Murchison is once again the director. Murchison lets slip that he had known Edwardes slightly and did not like him, contradicting his earlier statement that they had never met. Now suspicious, Petersen reconsiders her notes from the dream and realizes that the wheel was a revolver, and that the man hiding behind the chimney and dropping the wheel was Murchison, who shot Edwardes and then dropped the gun.
Petersen confronts Murchison. He confesses but says that he still has the gun and threatens to kill her. She walks away, the gun pointed at her, explaining that while the first murder was committed under the extenuating circumstances of Murchison's fragile mental state, her murder would certainly lead him to the electric chair. He allows her to leave then turns the gun on himself. Petersen is then reunited with Ballantyne. They leave on their honeymoon together from Grand Central Terminal, where they had begun their investigation of his psychosis.

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Cast
Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen イングリッド・バーグマン
Gregory Peck as Dr. Anthony Edwardes / John Ballantyne　グレゴリー・ペック
Michael Chekhov as Dr. Alexander "Alex" Brulov　マイケル・チェーホフ
Leo G. Carroll as Dr. Murchison レオ・G・キャロル
Rhonda Fleming as Mary Carmichael　ロンダ・フレミング

参照



Academy Awards
Won
Best Original Score

Nominated
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Supporting Actor (Michael Chekhov)
Best Cinematography, Black and White
Best Visual Effects

1945年のアルフレッド・ヒッチコック作品「白い恐怖」です。
イングリッド・バーグマン、グレゴリー・ペックが主演。

記憶喪失を取り扱ったサイコ・スリラー映画です。
精神分析を映画でやるということで、ヒッチコックにとっても実験的だったのでは?
今だともっとこのあたりの学問も発達しているので、ちょっとテンポが悪いと感じるかも知れない。
それでもバーグマンの美しさ、演技は素晴らしい。
グレゴリー・ペックの方は、まだまだ駆け出しという印象でこんなもんかなという感じ。
まだ俳優デビューしてまもない頃ですからね。

ちなみに監督のヒッチコックは38分ごろに、ホテルのエレベータからタバコをふかしながら出てきます。
上に貼った映画の予告編にもこの模様が出ています。