Mirage

1965
Approved
1h 48m

IMDb RATING

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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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

6.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win

Bo
(as House B. Jameson)

Hari Rhodes

Lt. Franken

Syl Lamont

Benny

Eileen Baral

Irene

Neil Fitzgerald

Joe Turtle

Franklin Cover

Group Leader
(as Franklin E. Cover)

Don Anderson

Bar Patron
(uncredited)

Florence Anglin

Minor Role
(uncredited)

Director
- Edward Dmytryk
Writers
- Peter Stone
- Howard Fast
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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
When Gregory Peck is calling a telephone number, the "Not in Service" recording starts before he is finished dialing.

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
Featured in A Face in the Dark: Diane Baker on 'Mirage' (2019)

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7/10

Starts better than it ends, but overall quite good

This wonderfully ingenious mystery is one of the better faux Hitchock films out there. The setup is excellent, the mystery comes quick and keeps deepening, and the cast is solid, especially Matthau.

The mystery is clever and the solution is also pretty clever and holds together nicely. So the whole movie *should* be great.

But as ingenious as it is, the creators couldn't find a neat way to explain it all, resulting in a bit too much exposition in the last quarter.

And once the central mystery is solved, there is still a story to deal with, and the movie really struggles with that, in part because it seems afraid to really deal with the political issues it raises, like some movie from the 40s that tries to follow the plight of an unwed mother without mentioning sex. It's not that I didn't understand the whole story by the end, but that the resolution had a strange, muted feeling to it.

Still, overall this is well worth watching.