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Mine Own Executioner (1947)
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22 November 1947 (UK) morePlot:
Pretty Molly Lucian enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Burgess Meredith | ... | Felix Milne | |
| Dulcie Gray | ... | Patricia Milne | |
| Michael Shepley | ... | Peter Edge | |
| Christine Norden | ... | Barbara 'Babs' Edge | |
| Kieron Moore | ... | Adam Lucian | |
| Barbara White | ... | Molly Sinclair Lucian | |
| Walter Fitzgerald | ... | Dr. Norris Pile | |
| Edgar Norfolk | ... | Sir George Freethorne | |
| John Laurie | ... | Dr. James Garsten | |
| Martin Miller | ... | Dr. Hans Tautz | |
| Clive Morton | ... | Robert Paston | |
| Joss Ambler | ... | Julian Briant | |
| Jack Raine | ... | Inspector Pierce | |
| Laurence Hanray | ... | Dr. Lefage | |
| Helen Haye | ... | Lady Maresfield |
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Christine Norden replaced Rosalyn Boulter after an intervention by Burgess Meredith's wife Paulette Goddard, who decided that Boulter wasn't sexy enough. moreQuotes:
Barbara Edge: There's nothing worse than a man who makes you take off your self-respect, and keep your clothes on. moreFAQ
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The first film to explore the use of lay practitioners in the Freudian theory, this film is so far ahead of its time as to be psychologically shocking. American Burgess Meredith's performance is one of the best of his career. The absolute certainty with which he portrays the uncertainty of the human psyche (his own as well as others') is the film's brilliance.
Torn with personal ambivalence, Felix is also torn with the knowledge that he is unable to save his worthwhile patient and his loving wife. A truly under-acknowledged and underestimated film, it deserves a viewing by all interested in film art, and in the development of psychoanalytic technique.