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wrote: "After a rather long-drawn-out beginning, where Mason fans will get much Mason, the story develops rapidly to a grand, exciting, fast-moving dénouement. Flawless crimes, the film argues, simply do not exist, and when paranoia intervenes there isn't a hope. Even the country doctor and the
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medical student make better diagnoses than the trained, experienced specialist, and as the student so aptly says, a paranoiac has to tell someone."
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170:1947-06-17
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