He recalls seeing Edwardes go over the precipice. (Warning: real psychoanalysis works nothing like this.)Ĭonstance and Brown go skiing, and Brown regains his memory just like that. The analysts decide that Brown should go to the site of the ski accident to jog his memory. Brown's fear of parallel lines on white, like the lines on the napkin, is a fear of ski tracks. They figure out that Brown was on a ski trip with Edwardes when he died. Instead, they read it as if it's a coded message. The dream has a ton of weird sexual imagery, but they ignore that. (He's maybe tipped off when JB sleepwalks around his house holding a straight razor.)īrulov and Constance analyze one of JB's dreams. Brulov is a wily old curmudgeon, who figures out that JB is an amnesiac with serious mental problems even though no one tells him. A few police officers start nosing around, so Constance and JB skedaddle to Rochester, where they meet up with Dr. Whenever she tries to analyze him, he gets really cranky and calls her names.īut name-calling isn't the worst of it. She begins to analyze him in order to dispel his amnesia. The plot thickens, and also begins to thrash about.Ĭonstance sneaks off to the Empire State Hotel, where she finds Edwardes (or whatever his name is-they decide to call him "John Brown"). Just in time too, as everyone suddenly realizes he's an impostor… and begin to suspect him of murder. He thinks he's no good for Constance, so he bolts, leaving her a note that says he's going to New York. She tells him to stay put and she'll help him.īut Edwardes does not stay put. Constance thinks he just has guilt issues, because no one who looks like Gregory Peck could commit murder. In fact, after he says he has amnesia, Fake Edwardes says he must have killed the real Edwardes, though he doesn't remember doing it. Then he forgets and says he has amnesia again. Constance confronts him, and he says he has amnesia. He freaks out when Constance makes lines with a fork on the tablecloth. He doesn't seem to know anything about psychiatry. Edwardes, though-and it's not just that he looks like a movie star. (And yes, Peck and Bergman did have a real-life affair during the filming.) That's always a risk when you've got people who look like Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck hanging out together. ![]() Anthony Edwardes… who also, against all the odds, looks like a movie star (Gregory Peck, in his case).Ĭonstance and Anthony fall in love almost as soon as they see each other. Murchison, recently had a nervous breakdown, and the board is forcing him to retire. Constance Petersen, looks like a movie star (Ingrid Bergman, specifically), improbable as that seems. The film starts at Green Manors, a psychiatric institution. The twists and turns are fun, but don't think about it too hard, or the psychiatrists will come for you. ![]() Spellbound has one of those plots that scurries here, scurries there… and then forgets where it's going and trips over a love story with giant scissors.
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