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Double Verdict
195730 minFilm: Fiction
Direction: Fergus McDonell
Production: Julian Biggs
Script: Charles E. Israel
A man torn between two worlds--the world of reality and the world of his own dreams and ambitions--is the basis of this drama about Andy Potter, a successful lawyer unable to face mediocrity. Andy got along with his wife and his many friends, there was no apparent reason for him to wish to end his own life; he had everything a man would need to enjoy life fully. On the outside modest and unassuming, internally he was driven by a consuming urge to conquer and distinguish himself. One by one, the symptoms of schizophrenia took their toll.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Mental Illness and DisabilitiesSuicide
Credits
- director
- Fergus McDonell
- producer
- Julian Biggs
- script
- Charles E. Israel
- photography
- Eugene Boyko
- sound
- John Locke
- editing
- Dennis Sawyer
- cast
- Norman Ettlinger
- Cec Linder