Mine Own Executioner
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| Directed by | Anthony Kimmins |
| Produced by | Anthony Kimmins Jack Kitchin Alexander Korda (exec producer) |
| Written by | Nigel Balchin |
| Based on | novel by Nigel Balchin |
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Burgess Meredith Kieron Moore |
| Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
| Edited by | Richard Best |
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| Distributed by | British Lion Films |
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108 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £158,734 (UK) |
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. The title is derived from a quotation of John Donne's "Devotions", which serves as the motto for the original book.
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.
The American actor Burgess Meredith was cast in the lead. At the same time, his wife Paulette Goddard was also hired by Alexander Korda to appear in An Ideal Husband (1947).
Australian Frederic Hilton worked as technical adviser.
The film was picketed in the US by the Sons of Liberty, an anti-British group active at the time. The picketing was part of the group's call to boycott British films and products, and had little to do with Mine Own Executioner in itself.
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