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Mine Own Executioner is a British film of genre Drama directed by Anthony Kimmins with Burgess Meredith
Mine Own Executioner (1947)
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Add to a movie listMine 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.
The title is derived from a quotation of John Donne's "Devotions", which serves as the motto for the original book.
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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 Milne's help in treating her husband, Adam. Adam is about to become severely schizophrenic. To make matters worse, Felix finds his own home life deteriorating.Actors
Burgess Meredith
(Felix Milne)
Dulcie Gray
(Patricia Milne)
Michael Shepley
(Peter Edge)
Christine Norden
(Barbara Edge)
Kieron Moore
(Adam Lucian)
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