Mirage

Directed by Edward Dmytryk, 1965

Based on the novel Fallen Angel by Howard Fast (1962)

Starring Gregory Peck, Diane Baker and Walter Matthau

A New York accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major (Leif Erickson). David Stillwell traces his past back into the middle of a murder plot in this American neo noir thriller film. Meanwhile Diane Baker is haunting as Shela, the attractive woman who's loyalty to the company is finally overridden by her love for the scientist who  came up with an important formula for making nuclear missiles less dangerous and easier to control. He was being kept alive only in order to extract this information from him. Directly in the end, when The Major discovers that the formula was burnt. The source of Stillwell's amnesia is also uncovered eventually. His boss, whom he admired, had fallen out of the window in his office several storeys up in a tussle to save the formula as it was being burnt to a cinder. And the Private Eye he hires to help him solve the mystery winds up dead, this being his first ever case.