Mine Own Executioner (B&W) Anthony Kimmins Digital Life VHS

Mine Own Executioner (B&W)
starring: Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore
directed by: Anthony Kimmins

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303934808
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6303934803
Label: Madacy Records
Manufacturer: Madacy Records
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Madacy Records
Release Date: September 19, 1997
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 49323
Studio: Madacy Records

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- Rare (and early) film treatment of psychological trauma & therapist's role
"Mine Own Executioner" was for me a treat to discover as a VHS product as it rarely turns up on British TV, in fact I can only remember seeing it twice beofre - first when I was 14 and its theme struck me as fascinating, perhaps because as a child I had found the TV series "The Human Jungle" (Herbert Lom, early to mid 60's) fascinating too. The second time I saew it on TV was about 12 or so years later and I got more out of it of course as an adult, I saw it was not just about a man trying to help another man from destroying himself but also the therapist himself has issues of his own to deal with - not totally unlike those of his patient. "Mine Own Executioner" could easily have been an episode of "The Human Jungle" really apart from the fact that the TV show was usually optimistic in its endings. This film is quite bleak but realistic and human, with lots of sympathy. Burgess Meredith is great and the climbing ... Read More

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- A Psychotherapist's Point of View
As a psychotherapist I find almost no films that show what that process is about. Mine Own Executioner with Burgess Meredith is my favorite of the few.

Meredith plays a lay-analyst (no medical qualifications) treating a WWII British soldier traumatized by his P.O.W. experiences at the hands of the Japanese in Burma. There is drama here (and melodrama) -- will he mistakenly kill his wife before Meredith can help him resolve his still simmering rage? Stay tuned or viewed.

But the heart of this film is about the humaness of the analyst. He mistreats the wife he takes for granted; while playing with fire with the attractive wife of a colleague. Eventually he runs head-long into his own less-than heroic character and makes peace with himself.

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