Mine Own Executioner

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.

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 Milnes help in treating her husband, Adam. Adam is about to become severely schizophrenic. To make matters worse, Felix finds his own home life deteriorating.Burgess Meredith was imported from Hollywood to play the lead. At the same time, his wife Paulette Goddard was also hired by Alexander Korda to appear in An Ideal Husband 1947. ........

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