Please RT: I really could do with some help tracking down a film title
This is driving me mad. Ever since going in the colour dome the other day, I’ve been plagued with vague memories of a film I saw when I was younger. It was probably one of those late night jobs that Channel4 was showing as part of a sci fi festival and for the life of me I can’t find anything about it online. So here goes…From what I remember it was probably made between the late 50′s and early 70′s, was American and I can’t think of anyone really famous in it (or I would have googled them). It was set in the future and there was some kind of war on between the West and East, I don’t remember if specific countries got named. The main star was a shortish balding fella with a nasally voice who played some kind of scientist/doctor and was incharge of debriefing a pilot (or some kind of military officer) who had escaped from the other side. The military was trying to find out if he was a traitor or not as (and this is one thing I am really clear about) if captured, all military personnel are conditioned to have their minds wiped when tortured rather than give up any secrets. They couldn’t figure out if he was reprogrammed to be a saboteur or if he had genuinely escaped. About half way in the doctor chap (I’ve seen the actor before in something but don’t know where) gets accused of being a traitor but basically tells the accusers they are being stupid (possibly a bit harsher than that but you get the drift) and the twist was that the pilot guy had agreed to become a spy/traitor/saboteur/renegade/whatever rather than be tortured, lose his mind and essentially stop being who he is. Yup, this was one of those pseudo cold war type films with sci-fi thrown in that dealt with identity and ideas of self so it was along the lines of ‘Who?’ ( and its obviously not ‘Who?’ as I can remember that film/book) and ‘invasion of the body snatchers’
I think it was all filmed in enclosed sets and can’t remember any being set outside, this is why I remembered this as I think the backgrounds to the enclosed sets all had coloured lights on them. I also have a vague memory that the film was based on one of several books set in this future war scenario. I’ve searched the web trying to find anything about it but I’ve failed to find anything except loads of references to dollhouse (mindwiping… pshaaaaw) so thought i would try a reverse lookup as it were.
If you are reading and don’t know the answer, please retweet it out there and help me restore some kind of sanity to my poor old noggin.
Any questions or answers then please post them below and show off your wise memory. Plus I will award the first person who comes up with the correct answer with a copy of ‘the art of 3d comupter animation and effects’ 3rd edition.
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