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Mirage MCA/Universal Pictures (1965 b/w: USA 108 min) Plot Summary: A suspense thriller about a man suffering from amnesia who is determined to solve a murder before someone gets the chance to kill him. A dazed Gregory Peck wanders down the stairs of a New York skyscraper during a power blackout, only vaguely aware of who he is, where he's been, and why he has this nagging feeling that danger lurks all about him. He does know that many of the people in the building are acquainted with him -- and that he is somehow linked with the death of a wealthy philanthropist who has just fallen 27 floors to his death. With a body hurtling from a New York skyscraper, this Hitchcock-like thriller opens in a state of mysterious suspense that carries you through to its spine-tingling climax. GREGORY PECK is a man with an important secret...but he can't remember what it is. Suffering from traumatic amnesia, Peck things he is a cost accountant for the vast Unidyne Corporation. In reality he is a physiochemist who has discovered a way to neutralize radiation from a nuclear fall-out. Both Unidyne officials and advocates for world peace want Peck's scientific forumla -- and both are willing to kill for it. With his life in danger, Peck takes his story to the police. No one will pay any attention to him, however, except WALTER MATTHAU, an easy-going detective who finds his own life threatened when he tries to help. Thinking he is going crazy, Peck seeks treatment from a psychiatrist (ROBERT H. HARRIS). Only then does he begin to unravel the mysteries locked in his mind and understand why he is the target of hit men. Director EDWARD DMYTRYK imposed his own inventive style on this film, shot on location in New York City. He discarded the traditional method for introducing flashbacks with a filmy, out-of-focus dissolve. Instead, he incorporated short lead-in lines with straight cuts to achieve the same effect, a creative technique that's still used in the movies of today. Directed by: Edward Dmytryk Cast:   Gregory Peck David   Diane Baker Shela   Walter Matthau Ted Caselle   Kevin McCarthy Josephson   Jack Weston Lester   Leif Erickson Major Crawford   Walter Abel Calvin   George Kennedy Willard   Robert Harris Dr. Broden   Anne Seymour Frances   House Jameson Bo   Hari Rhodes Lieutenant Franken   Syl Lamont Benny   Eileen Baral Irene   Neil Fitzgerald Joe Turtle   Franklin Cover Group Leader Written by: Howard Fast (as Walter Ericson) Peter Stone (screenplay) Cinematography by: Joseph MacDonald Music by: Quincy Jones Costume Design by: Jean Louis Film Editing by: Ted J. Kent Produced by: Harry Keller