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Faux Affably Evil: Lester, who casually converses and jokes with David while holding a gun on him the entire time.He likes David because "Youre the only man in this whole building who can say my name without making it sound like a joke." Also see the spoiler text under Only Known by Their Nickname.

Fail O Sucky Name: Joe Turtle (Neil Fitzgerald), the Unidyne receptionist.Executive Suite Fight: A variation: the film's climax, with the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and Russian Roulette scenes, takes place in the Major's secret penthouse.Jameson was in his early 60s at the time of filming. Evil Old Folks: Bo (House Jameson), one of the Major's assassins.Evil Duo: Willard (George Kennedy) and Lester (Jack Weston), the two assassins working for the Major who get the most screen time.Driven to Suicide: A newspaper headline says that Calvin's death is an apparent suicide, and a background character also assumes that this is the case ("If I had the guts to step out that window, I'd have the guts to go on living").Destination Defenestration: Charles Calvin's death is an example.(Gestures at a New York City street) Do they look like human beings, or ants? You're quite right, David, they are statistics. Dehumanization: The argument that begins the story is all about it.Ĭharles: Is that what you want to see, David? Human beings? Come here, David.Dead Star Walking: Walter Matthau's character surprisingly dies at the end of the second act.Bad Boss: Considering that David is both one of the Major's victims and his employee.He's the head of Unidyne, and he's willing to have people murdered, threatened and beaten to get what he wants. Corrupt Corporate Executive: What the Major turns out to be.

According to the press booklet, the filmmakers removed an ad for a TV showing of the 1956 Moby-Dick film (which starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab) from a subway car. Their subsequent argument is the indirect cause of Calvin's death. Broken Pedestal: David admires Charles Calvin at first, then learns that his mentor's foundation has illegally been working with the Major and Unidyne on the deadly formula.Big Applesauce: Mirage was filmed on location in New York City, and is a worthwhile guide to what NYC looked like in the mid-60s.Then the camera shows Shela as she holds the smoking gun.

Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: During the Russian Roulette scene, as we expect Willard to pull the trigger on David for the third time, we hear a shot and see the baddie collapse.

He even hires a Private Detective to help him find out who he is really is.

Amnesiac Hero: David suffers from Identity Amnesia brought on by a traumatic event which he cannot remember and hence tries to uncover.

Aided by rookie detective Ted Caselle (Matthau) and confused by Shela (Baker), a woman he doesn't recognize but who claims to be an old girlfriend, David tries to make sense of the inconsistent facts. Believing he has some type of amnesia, he tries to backtrack what happened before the blackout. David is bewildered that he can't recall even simple particulars of his job, and places he does remember don't exist. The film stars Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston, Leif Erickson, and George Kennedy.ĭavid Stillwell (Peck) is a cost accountant for the Unidyne Corporation - or is he? See, his memory suddenly becomes mixed up, starting from the moment when Unidyne's Manhattan headquarters has a power blackout - which happens just before Wealthy Philanthropist Charles Stewart Calvin (Walter Abel) plunges to his doom from an upper floor of the building. Mirage is a 1965 noir thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the novel Fallen Angel by Walter Ericson (a Pen Name for Howard Fast).