Mickey One
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| Mickey One | |
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| Directed by | Arthur Penn |
| Produced by | Arthur Penn |
| Written by | Alan Surgal |
| Starring | Warren Beatty Alexandra Stewart Hurd Hatfield |
| Music by | Eddie Sauter |
| Cinematography | Ghislain Cloquet |
| Editing by | Aram Avakian |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 27 September 1965 |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Mickey One is a 1965 film starring Warren Beatty and directed by Arthur Penn. Its New Wave-influenced editing and camera angles, its atmospheric noir lighting effects, its surrealistic mise en scene, its Kafkaesque paranoia and philosophical themes, and the performance given by Warren Beatty in the title role, turned the film into a cult-classic. It was also notable for its soundtrack, which re-teamed Stan Getz with arranger Eddie Sauter following their classic album Focus.
Tagline:...and the name of the game is Mickey!
[edit] Summary
After incurring the wrath of the mob, a comic flees Detroit for Chicago taking the name "Mickey One." As he returns to the stage and becomes successful, he fears that the mob will track him down. He wishes to square himself with the mob, but doesn't know what he did to anger them or what his debt is.
As he travels about the city, he continues to see a mime-like character known only as The Artist (Kamatari Fujiwara). The Artist eventually unleashes his Rube Goldberg-like creation, a self-destructive machine that is an obvious tribute to the sculptor Jean Tinguely.
His paranoia is proved real as he confronts a local theatrical producer who aggitatedly tells him to flee and provides him the money to do so, saying "I don't want anything to do with this".
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