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Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.
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- TriviaSir Roger Moore said that this role was his favorite, and the best ever of his screen performances.
- GoofsAs Pelham drives at high speed along the M4 motorway, he passes the same light blue Sunbeam Alpine and a red car at least four times.
- Quotes
Harold Pelham: Espionage isn't all James Bond on Her Majesty's Secret Service. Industry goes in for it too, you know.
- Crazy credits"(By permission of The Royal Shakespeare Co.)" underneath Hildegard Neil's name in the end credits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Friday Night Thriller: The Man Who Haunted Himself (1978)
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The Pelham Paranoia.
With its 1970s chic cheese and swagger and Roger Moore's excellent performance, The Man Who Haunted Himself has a considerable cult fan base. Directed by British legend Basil Dearden, plot finds Moore as Harold Pelham, who after being involved in a serious car accident, comes around from the trauma to find that his life is being turned upside down. It seems that somebody is impersonating him, people he knows swear he was in places he hasn't been, that he has been making decisions at work that he knows nothing about, and that he has a sexy mistress that threatens to destroy his marriage. Is he going mad? A victim of a collective practical joke? Or is there really something more sinister going on?
Don't be a slave to convention!
So yeah! A cult gem waiting to be rediscovered is The Man Who Haunted Himself, it has a plot that positively bristles with intrigue. As the doppleganger motif is tightly wound by Dearden, who smartly sticks to understated scene constructions as opposed to supernatural excess, there's a realistic and human feel to the story. The makers are not going for jolt shocks, but taking a considered approach that has the pertinent mystery elements lurking in the background, waiting for their chance to reveal themselves for the utterly thrilling finale. A finale that is bold and special, obvious but not, and definitely tinged with cunning ambiguity.
With Moore drawing on talent from his acting pool that many thought he didn't have (two different characterisations smartly realised here), and Dearden pulling the technical strings (love those off-kilter angles and multi mirrored images), this is a film that has surprises in store all across the board. 8/10
Don't be a slave to convention!
So yeah! A cult gem waiting to be rediscovered is The Man Who Haunted Himself, it has a plot that positively bristles with intrigue. As the doppleganger motif is tightly wound by Dearden, who smartly sticks to understated scene constructions as opposed to supernatural excess, there's a realistic and human feel to the story. The makers are not going for jolt shocks, but taking a considered approach that has the pertinent mystery elements lurking in the background, waiting for their chance to reveal themselves for the utterly thrilling finale. A finale that is bold and special, obvious but not, and definitely tinged with cunning ambiguity.
With Moore drawing on talent from his acting pool that many thought he didn't have (two different characterisations smartly realised here), and Dearden pulling the technical strings (love those off-kilter angles and multi mirrored images), this is a film that has surprises in store all across the board. 8/10
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Ein Mann jagt sich selbst
- Filming locations
- Fairholt, Hadley Green Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK(Pelham's house)
- Production companies
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- Budget
- £400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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