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Amnesia Minor 
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Third Day, The (1965) |
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Peppard plays a man, Steve, who
after a car crash loses his memory. He walks away from the crash to
find himself with a bad reputation for drinking, womanizing.
He doesn't tell anyone he's been in a crash. When asked what happened
he says he doesn't know. "I don't remember anything." Not even the
crash.
We learn that he runs a factory which makes chinaware.
Then it turns out there was a girl in the car who is half-drowned and
unconscious. A colleague and lawyer thinks only of how to cover things
up. Nobody bothers to call a doctor.
His wife succumbs to his charms straightaway. Then begins a series of
flashbacks. We discover that his father-in-law has had a stroke. He
can't see, feel, hear, think or dream (how would they know?). He's
just alive. Has to have drops in his eyes because he only blinks
spasmodically.
At one point a doctor Steve has total amnesia though the doctor didn't
examine him.
It is revealed that there is a battle over closing the factory Steve
starts to investigate. He involves his father-in-law asking him to
move his forefinger twice for yes, once for no to vote for future of
factory. The mystery of the woman in the car is cleared up and that's
that.
Peppard has little more animation than the father-in-law. |
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