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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Well, both ends in K, but Hitchcock has more letters...you know what I mean? I have read the other opinions here, all talking about the superlative movie. Of those 50 reviews, only 8 are correct about "Mirage": 1)Robert J. Maxwell ([email protected]) from Deming, New Mexico, USA, 2)tireless_crank from Maryland, 3)planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida, 4)worldofgabby from United States, 5)airfoyle from United States, 6)Muskox53 from Buffalo, NY, 7)kenjha, 8)J. Spurlin from United States. Only they approach the truth, even put the point on it. I've seen a lot of movies directed by Edward Dmytryk, usually honorable decent movies. The best, in my humble opinion, is "The Mountain", with Spencer Tracy, which I have seen many times with great pleasure. With this "Mirage" he tried to mimic Hitchcock, which can not be imitated. Many others have tried, no one can match the great master (Brian De Palma has come closest). "Mirage" has all the Hitchcock brand items, the same recipe, but not Hitchcock is the cook, you know what I mean? The actors all strive, but I'm sorry to say it, the movie is a failure. In vain we have the super-great Walter Matthau, the super-natural George Kennedy. Kevin McCarthy and Jack Weston are just OK, the same as in all their other films. Diane Baker is young and beautiful. She is also a very good actress, but unconvincing here because the script is chaotic and contradictory. Gregory Peck I never liked too much, in all the movies he's a constipated guy, like he's always got a big carrot in his ass. And then, the same verbal tics, pauses, eyes, moves, body language, the same, always the same. Sorry Peck lovers, I prefer Lee Marvin for instance. And the music by the great Quincy Jones, is not great. Instead of trying to copy Hitchcock, Mr. Dmytryk better have done "The Mountain Part 2". 4 stars, because of Walter Matthau and George Kennedy.

The Mid 1960's was an Awkward Period for Movies. It was a Netherland Between the Eisenhower Boom Years and the Post Cuban Missile Crisis Era When the Fear of the Bomb Became Not Just a Paranoiac Anxiety but an Almost All Too Real Residue of Recent Events.It was Also a Time in the Arts Between Elvis Relevance and the Beatles Breakthrough, the Breaking Down of the Production Code, and the Breaking Down of Cultural Conventions. Anyway, this Movie Could be Called One of the First Neo-Noirs. Most Film Historians Agree that the End of Classic Film-Noir, if it is Possible to Date, is Around 1959 or So.This One has Elements of Noir with Some Expressionistic Lighting, Especially in the First Act, Flashbacks, Amnesia, Time Distortion, Strong Up Close and Personal Violence, Witty Dialog, Chilling Psychopathic Villains, and a Strong Anti-Establishment Story and Script.A Good Cast with Gregory Peck as the Man Without a Memory, Walter Matthau as a Private Detective with the Ethics of Philip Marlowe but Lacking His Confidence. George Kennedy as a Psycho-Killer of Anyone Who Crosses His Path. A Nervous Diane Baker with a Demeanor Like a Frightened Fawn. Kevin Mccarthy as a Yes Man with Weird Beatnik Style Slang Dialog, Leif Erikson and John Weston Round Out the Oddball Cast with a Few Edgy Scenes.The Film is Complicated and there is Quite a Bit of Social Commentary Concerning Corporate Dehumanization and Military War Mongering. Overall, a Film this Complex and Rich in Quirky Characters and Timely Consideration, Lingers in the Subconscious of Those Who Have Seen it. It is So Stuffed with Suspense and Thrills, it Remains One of those Almost Forgotten Films in a Time Period when So Many Movies Deserved to be Forgotten. This One Needs to be Rediscovered.

***Spoilers*** "Mirage" is a lot like the previous Gregory Peck movie made 20 years earlier in 1945 called "Spellbound" where he goes through the entire film trying to find out the cause of his acute amnesia and when he finally does he wishes that he didn't. In this mind bender of a movie Peck as cost accountant David Stillwell finds himself in the darkened 65 floor Unidyne Bilding in downtown Manhattan after all the light mysteriously went out. What went out together with the light was Stillwell's memory of what happened to him over the last two years!Confused and disoriented Stillwell soon run into a number of people who for some reason or another try to both kidnap as well as kill him! Not knowing what exactly all this, the attempt to kidnap and murder him, is all about Stillwell tries to somehow recover his memory and get to the bottom of what exactly is going on! It's with the help of private detective Ted Casselle, Walter Matthau, that Stillwell uncovers that he in fact is not a cost accountant but a nuclear scientist connected with the California based Garrison Laboratories who's founder is non other then world famous renowned peace activist Charles Stewart Calvin, Walter Able. It was at the exact moment that Stillwell lost his memory that Calive jumped fell or was pushed out of his 27th floor office window at the Unidyne Building! With this vital piece of information, Calvin's tragic death, Stillwell starts to put all the pieces together in his past that somehow connects him to what's behind his sudden memory loss! And why he's being targeted by those mysterious persons in the movie for either assassination or kidnapping or both! It takes a while to figure just what exactly in going on in the movie with the totally confused David Stillwell on the run from those out to get him without him quite knowing why! It was the man who worked in the lobby at the Unidyne Building Mr. Joe Turtle, Neil Fitzgerald, who was about the only person in all of NYC who knew Stillwell before he lost his memory and could possibly help him. But Turtle ended up being beaten to death in a bathtub before he could enlighten Stillwell to who he is and what he was doing in the Unidyne Building at the time of Calvin's death! There's also the mystery woman Shelia, Diane Baker, who's part of the gang that's out to do Stillwell in but soon falls in love with him and tries to get Stillwell out of harms way even at the cost of her own life!***SPOILERS*** Slowly but surly Stillwell's memory comes back to him in that the shock of what he was involved at the Garrison Laboratories and world peace loving Charles Calvin as well as this mysterious Major,???,shocked the poor guy right down to his shoes and socks! It was Stillwell's discovery in being able to neutralized nuclear power,including that of both atomic and hydrogen bombs, by preventing the release of deadly radiation or fall-out that the crazed warmongering and deranged Major was after! The problem is that after finding out the Major's sinister plans to start nuclear wars, probably against the USSR & Red China, without fear of nuclear fall-out was just too much for David Stillwell to take. It was in Stillwell burning the blueprint of his secret equation in preventing fall-out after exploding nuclear weapons that in a way kept him alive. It was that action that had an almost crazed and wild eyed Calivn in trying to get the paper before Stillwell burned it that caused him to fly out, in trying to grab it before it burned to a crisps, of his office window and end up killing himself! And it was that unfortunate incident that Stillwell was innocently responsible for,in not realizing that Calvin was crazy enough to do it, that cause his sudden memory loss! ***MAJOR MAJOR SPOILER*** With all this now behind him, and his memory fully restored, Stillwell faced the Major who for some reason didn't have the guts to do Stillwell in by himself and gave the job to his chicken liveried assistant Sylvester "Sly" Josephson, Kevin McCarthy, instead. True to his spineless and cowardly nature Sly didn't have the guts, like the Major, to do Stillwell, who's a good friend of his, in. But Sly finally did come to his senses by realizing that he was completely off his rocker in calling the police on the now helpless and once powerful Major and have the him end up behind bars and face justice for all the crimes he had ordered, of course he didn't have the guts to do them himself, in the movie!

A New York cost accountant realizes his entire existence for the past two years may be a sham, and that his "unconscious amnesia" may be connected to the apparent suicide of a World Peace advocate who fell from a window during a power blackout in the accountant's office building. Peter Stone's screenplay is fun at first, looping itself in knots and causing great consternation for our hero, appealingly played by Gregory Peck. The presentation is stylish, and there's some effective editing throughout (blending together the past with the present), but Stone doesn't play fair with the audience. As bodies (and plot-holes) begin to add up, our expectations for an exciting, satisfying wrap-up are increasingly dimmed. When we finally do get to the denouement, it plays like standard television stuff. Well-dressed and designed picture has excellent location work and a solid supporting cast (despite moments of over-acting). A near-miss. ** from ****