Man in the Middle (film)
Man in the Middle is a 1964 British-American CinemaScope war film and starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Guy Hamilton.The movie, set in World War II India, tells the story of the murder trial of an American Army officer who killed a British soldier.The Army Lunacy Commission finds Winston fit and sane to stand trial; Adams is informed by nurse Kate Davray that Colonel Burton, who headed the commission, refused to accept the report (which he destroyed) of the hospital's psychiatric head, Major Kaufman, who believes Winston is a psychopath.During a brief love affair, nurse Kate Davray gives Colonel Adams an unsigned carbon copy of Major Kaufman's report, which at first, he refuses to accept.Though he despises Winston, Adams refuses to rig the trial and he holds back his defence, waiting for Kaufman to arrive as a witness.