Mirage is a 1965 thriller directed by Edward Dmytryk from a script by Peter Stone , starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, and Kevin McCarthy, and released by Universal Pictures. After emerging from a blacked-out skyscraper from which a famous humanitarian apparently jumped to his death, cost accountant David Stillwell is stunned to discover that gunmen are chasing him and he has no idea why. Stillwell gradually realizes that he suffers from "unconscious amnesia", and that this illness has caused him to apparently black out the events of the past two years. The problem is that a... prickly psychiatrist he consults assures him that it is impossible for unconscious amnesia to last more than a day or two. As he furiously tries to piece together the puzzle of his life, Stillwell comes across Shela , who implies that they have been involved in a relationship. She is vague and evasive, insisting that not remembering is the only thing keeping him alive. He apparently has something a mysterious figure known only as "The Major" wants, but he doesn't know what it is.
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