Mine Own Executioner
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Director Anthony Kimmins Cinematography Wilkie Cooper Duration Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Thriller Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Burgess Meredith (Felix Milne), Dulcie Gray (Patricia Milne), Michael Shepley (Peter Edge), Christine Norden (Barbara 'Babs' Edge), Kieron Moore (Adam Lucian), Barbara White (Molly Sinclair Lucian)Release date 22 November 1947 (1947-11-22) Based on novel by Nigel Balchin Writer Nigel Balchin (novel), Nigel Balchin (screenplay) Producers Anthony Kimmins, Alexander Korda Similar movies K-PAX , Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Don Juan DeMarco , The Forgotten , Rain Man | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mine Own Executioner is a 1947 British psychological thriller drama film starring Burgess Meredith and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Balchin. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. The title is derived from a quotation of John Donne's "Devotions", which serves as the motto for the original book.
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Plot
Felix Milne (Meredith) is an overworked psychologist with psychological problems of his own. Molly Lucian has a husband traumatized from having been in a Japanese POW camp, and she needs Milne's help in treating her husband, Adam. Adam is about to become severely schizophrenic. To make matters worse, Felix finds his own home life deteriorating.
Cast
Production
The American actor Burgess Meredith was cast in the lead. At the same time, his wife Paulette Goddard was also hired by Alexander Korda to appear in An Ideal Husband (1947).
Australian Frederic Hilton worked as technical adviser.
Reception
The film was picketed in the US by the Sons of Liberty, an anti-British group active at the time. The picketing was part of the group's call to boycott British films and products, and had little to do with Mine Own Executioner in itself.
References
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