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(More customer reviews)Really? A single DVD of Mirage? I'm skeptical. I thought this had only been released on DVD quite recently -- and then ONLY as one of a half-dozen Peck movies in a $60 boxed set. I wonder if the people offering "slim-case DVDs" are breaking up the box?
I love this movie so much I made myself a DVD of it a few years ago. I had to rent the VHS from Scarecrow Video, and because it was their only copy -- and long out of print -- they made me put down a $100 deposit on the tape.
That's how much I love this movie.
The movie has a palpable sense of vertigo about it (pun intended) where accountant David Stillwell suddenly realizes that two years of his life are missing. He sets out to fill in what his amnesia has removed, and all sorts of dangerous situations result. The Hitchcockian direction by Edward Dmytryk, the performances by Peck, Baker, Matthau, Weston, Kennedy & Erickson, the Herrmannesque score by Quincy Jones, the eerie black & white photography, the imaginative staging, the use of sound effects, the unforgettable images of watermelons... All of it is top notch. I've loved this movie since shortly after it first came out. An unjustly-neglected masterpiece!
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