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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.
Mine Own Executioner. Pretty Molly Lucian (Barbara White) enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam (Kieron Moore), who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Anthony Kimmins
- 1947-12-29
Mine Own Executioner is a 1945 psychological thriller by the English novelist Nigel Balchin, and is the novel most often associated with the author. It was the most popular of Balchin's three war-time novels, following earlier successes he had had with Darkness Falls from the Air (1942) and The Small Back Room (1943), both of which had already ...
- Nigel Balchin
- 1945
A former prisoner of war, Adam is dangerously unstable, and frequently mistakes his young wife (Barbara White) for his Burmese jailers. Despite some reservations, Felix begins intensive therapy ...
- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama
- Anthony Kimmins
In postwar London, clinical psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) is close to burnout. He has his own marital difficulties as well as an overloaded schedule. Most of his patients aren't really ill or even neurotic, but just need someone to listen to their ordinary troubles.
In the gripping drama Mine Own Executioner (1947), Burgess Meredith plays Felix Milne, a London psychotherapist called upon to treat Adam Lucian (Kieron Moore), a former POW who is showing signs of schizophrenia and potential violence.
MINE OWN EXECUTIONER is a psychological thriller released in Britain in 1947. Watching it today, it feels a lot like an early precursor to the wave of 'Vietnam vet' films that were being made in the 1970s.
