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Mirage

  • 19651965
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  • 1h 48m
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7.2/10
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Gregory Peck, Walter Matthau, and Diane Baker in Mirage (1965)
An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.
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An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Ma... Read allAn accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.
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    • Edward Dmytryk
    • Peter Stone(screenplay)
    • Howard Fast(novel "Fallen Angel")
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Diane Baker
    • Walter Matthau
    • Edward Dmytryk
    • Peter Stone(screenplay)
    • Howard Fast(novel "Fallen Angel")
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Diane Baker
    • Walter Matthau
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    • 75User reviews
    • 38Critic reviews
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    Mirage (1965)
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    Walter Matthau, Diane Baker, and Eileen Baral in Mirage (1965)
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    Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, and Eileen Baral in Mirage (1965)
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    Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    • David Stillwell
    Diane Baker
    Diane Baker
    • Shela
    Walter Matthau
    Walter Matthau
    • Ted Caselle
    Kevin McCarthy
    Kevin McCarthy
    • Sylvester Josephson
    Jack Weston
    Jack Weston
    • Lester
    Leif Erickson
    Leif Erickson
    • Major Crawford Gilcuddy
    Walter Abel
    Walter Abel
    • Charles Stewart Calvin
    George Kennedy
    George Kennedy
    • Willard
    Robert H. Harris
    Robert H. Harris
    • Dr. Augustus J. Broden
    Anne Seymour
    Anne Seymour
    • Mrs. Frances Calvin
    House Jameson
    House Jameson
    • Bo
    • (as House B. Jameson)
    Hari Rhodes
    Hari Rhodes
    • Lt. Franken
    Syl Lamont
    • Benny
    Eileen Baral
    Eileen Baral
    • Irene
    Neil Fitzgerald
    • Joe Turtle
    Franklin Cover
    Franklin Cover
    • Group Leader
    • (as Franklin E. Cover)
    Don Anderson
    Don Anderson
    • Bar Patron
    • (uncredited)
    Florence Anglin
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
      • Edward Dmytryk
      • Peter Stone(screenplay)
      • Howard Fast(novel "Fallen Angel")
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    • Trivia
      Gregory Peck was so happy with the quality of the film, that he gave screenwriter Peter Stone a Rolls-Royce as a post-production gift after the movie came out.
    • Goofs
      After leaving Joe Turtle's apartment and hearing the police enter the ground floor, Peck and Baker supposedly go up one floor. From the pattern of staining on the underside of the stairs, one can tell it is the same hallway set, just redressed to appear as another floor.
    • Quotes

      David Stillwell: I think the entire buildings gone mad. Everyone's running around trying to rescind the Ten Commandments.

      Shela: I've never understood why most people will do things in the dark, that they'd never think of doing in the light.

      David Stillwell: I'd explain it to you, but, I'm afraid the lights might come back on.

      Shela: No, I'm serious. If we can lie, cheat, steal, and kill in broad daylight and have to wait until it's dark to make love, something's wrong somewhere.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)

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    One of the best conspiracy political thrillers of the sixties.
    Sharing not a passing resemblance to The Manchurian Candidate from three years before, this is a sadly neglected thriller that would have been a classic if the director's credit read Hitchcock instead of someone HUAC blacklisted at the time. It couldn't have been any better too, with Hitch involved. There's really nothing the movie sets out to do that it doesn't do pretty damn well. The fights are clumsy and 15 years too old-fashioned, like something taken from a film-noir and edited in the same awkward fashion, but other than that the movie is a rousing success. Dmytryk's career took a massive blow after the fifties and his decision to finally cooperate in order to be released from prison earned him the contempt of subsequent Hollywood people, but a good ten years later, the director of still had it in him to deliver a stonecold classic with Murder My Sweet.

    Gregory Peck is David Stillwell, an accountant working for a NYC firm who realizes he can't remember anything from his life the past two years. The movie opens in a blacked-out skyscraper where he meets with a mysterious young woman who seems to know him. She then disappears in the subbasements of the building. When he searches for these basements the next morning, they're not there. That's just a taste of the hallucinatory mindgames the film has in order for the viewer.

    Wisely photographed in clear black and white, with an intriguing premise and plot that will have fans of conspiracy thrillers salivating at the prospect of paranoid twists and turns, this is a minor gem that deserves to be rediscovered from the cracks it slipped through. There is a plot hole regarding these basements and where they really are after all but if we accept the psychological explanation of Peck's condition (it's only a movie after all), it's a smooth ride. The multiple flashbacks of the ending and the way Dmytryk handles them is something to see.
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      • September 23, 1965 (United Kingdom)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Battery Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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      • Universal Pictures
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    • 1 hour 48 minutes
      • Black and White

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