Mirage

1965

Action / Mystery / Thriller

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 6543 6.5K

new york city amnesia identity crisis world peace nuclear scientist chemist

Plot summary

After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a man he did not know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death — and that he can't remember the past two years of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye and a reluctant old flame, Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.

Director

Edward Dmytryk Photo
Edward Dmytryk

Top cast

Harry Fleer Photo
Harry Fleer as Passenger
Kevin McCarthy Photo
Kevin McCarthy as Sylvester Josephson
Howard Wendell Photo
Howard Wendell as Bar Patron
Ann Doran Photo
Ann Doran as Tenant in Apartment 3R
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
999.12 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 3
1.81 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cherold 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.
Reviewed by willrams 8 / 10

very intense!

Directed by Edward Dmytryk, this film shows Gregory Peck suffering from amnesia and he soon learns it's a life and death situation. He tries to recover his memory before those who are trying to kill him succeed. He tries to make sense of it all. I found it exceedingly difficult to stay with it because there seemed to be no ending, but wait!! What a way to go to recover what happened and why! The film takes place in New York, and the acting and music are sure winners! Walter Mathau, Diane Baker, Kevin McCarthy, Walter Abel all show great intensity in feeling and emotion. 7/10
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