Mister Buddwing

• James Garner: Mister Buddwing
• Jean Simmons: Blonde
• Suzanne Pleshette: Fiddle
• Katharine Ross: Janet
• Angela Lansbury: Gloria
• Jack Gilford: Mr. Schwartz
• Joe Mantell: Taxi driver
• George Voskovec: old man

Face without a name is an American film drama from 1966, the director Delbert Mann based on the novel by Evan Hunter Buddwing staged.

Action

On a bench in Central Park wakes up a man and can not remember anything more. He knows nothing about his life and his past. The only clue he has is a note with a phone number, which he finds in his pocket. Accidentally he chooses the wrong number and reaches the sleepy Gloria, who considers him her drunken husband. He introduces himself to her as Mister Buddwing before, a name combination of a truck with beer and a charge across withdrawing aircraft.

Buddwing searches Gloria in her apartment. The woman is affected by his situation, but find him sympathetic. You drink coffee, Gloria lends him some money. Buddwing strolls through the streets. When he sees a young woman, it is the name Grace incident. The young woman turns out to be a student with the name Janet. Buddwing now remember a fellow student, Grace, who was his fiancée.

Buddwing learns the actress Fiddle know. In her apartment he hears music and remembers his own poverty, for which he had his dream to become a composer buried. He makes the acquaintance of a blonde a slim man looking as accompaniment in a gray suit. Buddwing accompanied them to Harlem to a game of dice. During the game he hears a comment that repeats the shock that wiped his memory. Now he knows his identity and makes his way to the hospital, where his wife is. She has attempted suicide behind him after he left her because of her pregnancy.

Reviews

The lexicon of the International film described the film as a low-stress, theatrically unsatisfying psycho- drama that tells his story, especially in lengthy flashbacks.

Wrote AH Weiler of the New York Times, New York was not a friendly place for someone with memory loss, but just as gloomy as for producers with unconvincing scenarios.

Awards

The film won two Oscar nominations in 1967, one for Best Production Design ( s / w) of George W. Davis, Paul Size, Henry Grace and Hugh Hunt and one for Best Costume Design ( B / W) by Helen Rose.

Background

The film, made ​​by MGM in sales, is one of the few U.S. productions, the premiere of which took place abroad. In Germany it was released in theaters on July 15, 1966. In the U.S., however, he started only on 11 October of the same year.

In a small supporting role as dice player Nichelle Nichols is seen.