5. Melting Clocks Got Enough on This... (Spellbound, 1945)
You just knew Hitchcock couldn't stay off this list for long, right? In one of the Master of Suspense's least known physiological thrillers, Ingrid Bergman is Dr. Constance Peterson and Gregory Peck is Dr. Anthony Edwardes, both physiologists at a mental hospital in Vermont. As Dr. Peterson becomes smitten with the charming and intelligent co-worker he begins to exhibit signs of a mental disorder. As he takes leave for New York City it is revealed that he was an impostor with the real Dr. Edwardes presumed murdered. Well, she thinks this can only mean one thing... the man needs help (how could anyone believe Atticus Finch as a cold-blooded murderer?). When she catches up with him she convinces him to travel to see a therapist who deals with dream interpretation her mentor Dr. Brulov (played with eccentric charm by Michael Chekov). The two of them ask Edwardes to recall his recent dreams. The result is one of the more memorable sequences in Hitchcock's extensive filmography. Yes, people will get on me if I don't mention that surrealist Salvador Dali created the entire sequence using psychoanalytical symbols such as 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 dropping a wheel, and wings. All mixed together to form an imaginative, strange and needless to say surreal experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAUUDTWFvhs