Wednesday 2 September 2015

The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970 Basil Dearden & co-scr)

Neither the film nor Roger Moore were nearly as bad as I was expecting. Story - which is arrant nonsense - is in a way quite playful on the alter ego subject, though should best have ended with the rogue Pelham taking control - he was clearly having much more fun than the straight version.

Some great stunt driving (mainly along the M4) is well edited (Teddy Darvas), good London location work, offset by terrible theme (and incidental) music.

With Hildegard Neil, Anton Rodgers, Olga Georges-Picot, Freddie Jones (in unfortunate dark glasses), and yes it was Carry On's Jacqui Piper in two second appearance as secretary.

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