This movie is awesome. totally awesome. Gregory Peck is suave and cool as hell even though he has amnesia. I'm utterly baffled as to why this isn't more well known and why the DVD was so modest and not Criterion collection or something.
As the film opens theres a blackout in an office building and all the employees are clowning around and trying to figure out what's going on. Especially Gregory Peck, who can't even figure out who he is. He goes back to his apartment and there are these gangsters following him around and also there's a hot girl he sees who tells him stuff he doesn't understand about "The Major" . All the while he is Gregory Peck and he's suave and eurodite to the hilt.
I guess this is somewhere betwen "The Parallax View" and "Momento" . Sounds pretty combustible eh? It was made in 1965 though before all that stuff. Walter Matheu is good as a detective guy, the hot chick is good as the hot chick. Quincy Jones of all people does the music which is old fashioned and good. Yeah, it's both amnesiac and conspiracy ish and thus a little hard to fathom, but the screenwriters clearly get that and take pains to at least try to get you to believe it could happen.
to you
5/5 I don't watch alot of contemporary stuff but this fits in with what's going on now in terms of edgy stuff with complex plots a la The Game, Exam, etc
pretty clearly ahead of it's time.