Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

originally posted on AOL Blogs, Saturday, October 13, 2007



Released April 9th in the US.
Filming location unknown.
The story: A pianist turned music journalist named Miles calls on a famous elderly pianist, Duncan Ely, for an interview.
When Miles does meet with Duncan, he finds that his elder is much more interested in who he is and what he can accomplish in his music career than talking about himself.
Soon the two are almost inseparable along with Miles's so-called daughter.
Miles's wife Paula finds all this very odd….
The new people in her husbands' life have seemed to change her husbands' train of thought completely.
Soon the famed and powerful Duncan falls ill and passes away.
The next thing Paula knows, Miles looks like her husband but just doesn’t act like him…it seems to her the man Miles once was before meeting and getting so involved in Duncan’s life has simply vanished.
This causes Paula to investigate further into Duncan’s life and what she finds out is so unbelievable she can find very few people that believe what she believes has happened to her husband.
Stars Alan Alda , Jacqueline Bisset , Pamelyn Ferdin , Curd Jürgens , Barbara Parkins , Bradford Dillman , William Windom , Kathleen Widdoes , Curt Lowens , Gregory Morton , Janee Michelle , Lilyan Chauvin , Khigh Dhiegh , Alberto Morin , Berry Kroeger
Directed by Paul Wendkos
Rated R
THRILLER/MYSTERY

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