The Man Who Haunted Himself
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
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- Cast:
- Roger Moore , Anton Rodgers , Olga Georges-Picot , Freddie Jones , Kevork Malikyan , Thorley Walters , Ruth Trouncer
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Fantastic!
best movie i've ever seen.
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Pre 007 Roger Moore plays a City businessman who finds himself being haunted by his doppelganger following a near fatal car crash. Very well made supernatural thriller which proves that you do not need gore or jump scares to make a film scary. It moves at a fast pace & kept me enthralled throughout. Good cast including a fine performance by Moore. Love the old Lamborghini that his duplicate drives around in!
This is one of the films from the 1970's that personifies the era and remains in my mind and always has as a most memorable film that transports me back to what i view were better days where going to the cinema was a real treat and movies didn't rely on special effects, foul language , sex and extreme violence to make a story that the viewer could sink into and leave reality behind and come out of the cinema feeling that you had been taken away from ordinary life to another place and time.It also goes to prove that Roger Moore CAN act as his performance is solid and believable.It brings back so many memories its quite a travel back in time to better times where violence, sex , nudity and cgi were not prevalent to such a degree as they are now and the story and plot were more important.One of the best movies from the 1970's and in my top movies of all time!
This is a nice little low budget early 70s thriller starring Roger Moore as a stuffy pretentious business man Harold peplum who is in a car crash and momentarily dies on the operating table who eventually is brought back to life and continues his life as if nothing had ever happened but not so long afterwards he starts being told by his colleagues and friends that they have been seeing him in places they would never expect to see him there and an attractive girl named Julie claims to have such an intimate relationship with him when he claims to his cynical wife that he has never seen her before and bit by bit his life continues to collapse around him and he wonders whether it's real or is he going insane ? . Overall it's an interesting film that boasts a compelling performance from Roger Moore who actually bothers to show audiences that he had at least a modicum of acting talent within himself
Anyone who ever suggests that Roger Moore can't act should be made to watch this film.What could have been a rather humdrum thriller is enlivened by a lead performance which demonstrates the mental collapse of a man who is watching his life fall apart.A series of strange incidents build to a tense and frightening climax where Moore really shows his skill. Combine that with a taut script, inventive direction (particularly in the fast-moving final scene) and a haunting score and you have a pretty good film.One slightly odd note - a year after filming, the director Basil Dearden was himself killed in a car accident near the spot where the fictional crash which begins this film took place.