Spellbound without the spelling ...

Worth watching just to hear Gregory Peck announce with all the conviction he can muster: 'If there's one thing I hate - it's a SMUG WOMAN'.

The music is a bit exaggerated and some of the scenes, for example - the opening of all the doors after Bergman gets her first ever kiss, are well somewhat over dramatised and bordering on the absurd, within the context of what has actually just taken place.

The scene where Bergman gushingly chooses Bratwurst over ham still perplexes me. Was that supposed to be a sly sexual reference, her choosing a sausage over a piece of flat ham?

A rather simplistic analysis of psychiatry really but Peck and Bergman are both at the peak of their acting careers here and talent just oozes out of them irrespective of the plot.

As things progress they begin to unravel the mystery behind Peck's amnesia and there is enough there to keep you interested in the outcome.