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MIRAGE. A plot that often seems trickier than a Chinese puzzle is pieced together entertainingly by a traumatized scientist (Gregory Peck) and a rather inept private eye (Walter Matthau) who keeps his wit about...
...Hitchcockily establishes the city's menacing mood. One glittering spire of steel and glass, suddenly goes dark. Inside the building, corridors teem with silhouetted confusion- elevators stall, office parties begin, and the leader of a world-famous peace foundation plummets 27 floors to his death. Hero Gregory Peck, looking vaguely troubled, chooses to walk down. En route he meets an enigmatic beauty (Diane Baker) who seems to know him intimately, though he has never seen her before...
...Before Peck discovers that he is a traumatized physicochemist, viewers must sweat along with him through several murders, a photogenic chase across Central Park, and a maddening game of mental gymnastics. Scenarist Peter Stone (Charade) varies the pace with droll asides, most of them knowingly shrugged off by Matthau as the reluctant snoop who abhors firearms and acts of heroism, and struggles gamely to look hard-bitten while guzzling Dr. Pepper...
Mirage offers prime-quality suspense up to the crucial point where the film tries to put its jigsaw plot in order. His amnesia beaten out of him, Peck recollects a top secret potent enough to neutralize radioactive fallout but not enough to keep a provocative movie from heading toward a mundane and faintly preposterous conclusion. Getting there is all the fun, but no one wants to find that out during the last reel of a thriller...
...semifinals. The finalists: bowlegged, two-time Champion Chuang Tse-tung, 23, a student at Peking's University of Physical Culture (one of few schools in the world that gives a degree in Ping-Pong), and Challenger Li Fu-jung, 22, who resembles a pint-sized Gregory Peck. Li was the crowd favorite. Often laying back as far as 20 ft. from the table, he brought gasps of astonishment from the crowd of 8,000 as he casually returned smash after smash, biding his time until he uncoiled to slam a blur of white past Chuang for a point. After...