The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely the worst movie.

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

I've never been a big fan of Mr Moore, he's played himself in just about everything bar this great slice of 70's cinema. I actually saw this in a cinema back in the day and loved it so much so that whenever it crops up on TV I still watch it. He actually acts in this other than being the Saint in everything else.The melt down of his original character as the doppelganger appears to take over his life shows that Mr Moore could act if he wanted to. It was also interesting to see how empty the elevated section of the M4 looked, if it were filmed now there would probably be a traffic jam.Ignore the negative reviews, of course it would have better production values today but the story is solid and grips the audience. An interesting concept which has been redone many times since but this is one of the originals, I recommend it.

I thought this was a good film.Roger Moore is great as the slightly dull family man Pelham who begins to have a meltdown when strange things start happening to him following a car crash. Apparently when he briefly dies on the operating table his "evil" or more exciting character is released and when he is brought back to life this leads to him having a duplicate. Therefore, his other side starts turning up and doing things opposite to what he would do thus causing him to slowly start to go mad because he was unaware of this.The ending is a bit strange though because the other characters don't appear shocked enough when the two Pelhams meet. They seem to accept a bit too easily that the "evil" Pelham is the genuine one and the "real" Pelham is the phoney despite the fact that the "evil" one acts totally differently to the "real" one in that he is more of a daredevil. Despite this I still enjoyed it because it shows the sometimes real struggle of living a possibly dull everyday life and the wish to have a more exciting one.Good performances make up for the slightly disappointing ending and overall this is a film worth seeing I think.

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!

Roger Moore plays a man whose other half (the half with panache) finally wins control over his body, a body that was nearly killed (actually dies on the operating table for a few seconds) in a ferocious (and excitingly filmed) car crash. A conservative and safety conscious partner in a London engineering firm, he's let life slip by a bit too much, not making love with his wife, passing up on the chance to score with God knows how many beautiful young women, the one here being a photographer, and myriad other potentialities. Well the other Moore, (more like Bond) gets a shot at the life force after the accident, and the first one (Mr. Conservative) is increasingly bewildered at reports of sightings of him here and there, when he was somewhere else. Fighting for his family, his work, his reputation, and his sanity, he has most viewers rooting for him to come out on top. The two sides finally have it out in a brilliant conclusion, one in a Bentley (or Rolls) and the other in an Astin (or Lotus), that reaches classic cinematic proportions in this high class Cormanesque near masterpiece.