How similar is it to Spellbound?
Gregory Peck also has amnesia in Spellbound and he tries to piece together the events that caused him to run from the law.
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That's about the end of the similarities.
I'm a huge Hitchcock fan, but I honestly like "Mirage" better than "Spellbound."
Well, I guess the Gregory Peck character witnesses a tragic death in both; otherwise, Mirage is really about corporate greed sucking away the best of intentions. Spellbound was about the mysteries of psychoanalysis (a popular movie topic back then).
I first saw Mirage on the old NBC Saturday Night at the Movies, probably a coupla years after it came out. I thought the Willard character was one of the scariest I'd seen & that Diane Baker was hot! Spellbound has its points (Ingrid Bergman, her old professor) & is I think one of the better Hitchcock productions of the 40s. I remember my folks saying that Mirage looked like a Hitchcock movie.
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A further similarity is that in both films, a key memory is triggered in a purely visual way. In Spellbound, the wdownward slope he's skiing triggers the memory of sliding down the banister of the stoop. In Mirage, seeing two men talking in a park triggers the memory of a similar recent event.
shareThe similarity between the two films was mentioned in a footnote in Francois Truffaut's interviews with Alfred Hitchcock "Hitchcock/Truffaut" published in 1967.
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