Yet another (if not yet mentioned) is "The Ipcress File," in which Michael Caine's character is imprisoned in a warehouse in London while being led to believe he's in some Central European jail. But if the key element is, a character is led into a fabricated reality he believes is real (as in "Vertigo"), and perhaps the audience is duped in the process, then Big Con films such as "The Sting" or Mamet's "House of Games" qualify. Strictly speaking, it isn't the mind that's bent but reality itself in these films, the mind retaining normal credulity. There may be an analogy in films like these with the dramatic process itself, fictive worlds presented as if real being the stock in trade of dramatists and filmmakers as well as confidence men, wife murderers, spies, politicians, and car salesmen (among many others). If we are to believe the Kurosawa of "Rashomon," all human beings adapt their concepts of reality to their own needs. Some further discriminator seems needed, if elaborate schemers like Gavin Elster is included in the category, because all of the above seem to troop in after him through the door he leaves open. Dick Gollin Film Studies, Univ. of Rochester ---- To sign off SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]