Movies: “Mirage”

May 26, 1965 - Opening today is “Mirage,” a thriller starring Gregory Peck and Diane Baker and released by Universal Pictures. Directed by Edward Dmytryk from a screenplay by Peter Stone, it is based on the 1952 novel “Fallen Angel,” written by Howard Fast under the pseudonym Walter Ericson. The novel is not credited by title onscreen. Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Leif Erickson, and Kevin McCarthy appear in support.

The screenplay was written by Stone as a follow-up to the hugely successful “Charade.” Matthau and Kennedy were holdovers from the cast of “Charade.”

Filming took place between Oct. 24 and Dec. 24 of last year at a number of locations in the New York Financial District. The musical score was composed by Quincy Jones. 

In the story, an accountant (Peck) suddenly suffers from amnesia which appears related to the suicide of his boss. Violent thugs out to get him work for a shadowy figure known simply as the Major (Erickson).

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