The Man Who Haunted Himself

  • Roger Moore: Harold Pelham
  • Hildegard Neil: Eve Pelham
  • Anton Rodgers: Tony Alexander
  • Olga Georges- Picot: Julia Anderson
  • Thorley Walters: Frank Bellamy
  • Freddie Jones: Dr. Harris
  • John Welsh: Sir Charles Freeman
  • Edward Chapman: Barton
  • Laurence Hardy: Mason
  • Charles Lloyd -Pack: Jameson
  • Gerald Sim: Morrison
  • John Carson: Ashton
  • Kevork Malikyan: Luigi
  • Alastair Mackenzie: Michael Pelham
  • Hugh Mackenzie: James Pelham

A man chases itself is a mystery- thriller by Basil Dearden based on the novel The Case of Mr. Pelham by Anthony Armstrong in 1970 with Roger Moore in the lead role.

Action

Harold Pelham is a proper Englishman as he is in the book and is working for a company that equips the Navy. It causes a serious car accident, which promoted him briefly into a coma. As Pelham again gesundet pursues his work, come to him more and more strange incidents to the ears, which he is alleged to have said, done or decided. At the same time represents a competitor his company into a merger proposal. The suspicion that the competition would have the new automation system of its company vision, confirmed soon by the fact that Pelham itself to be the leak and made ​​a pact with the competition. Pelham, however, suspects that a doppelganger is trying to discredit him and finds, to his horror, that this even has also stressed his private life by a lover.

Not withstand the pressure holding, Pelham gets a nervous breakdown and is an introduction from the psychoanalyst Dr. Harris to a clinic. There he learns that his life is just too boring and he needs to change.

But once outside and work in, the nightmare continues, as his doppelganger reports at his home on the phone. Pelham rushes home and is his double I face to face. His friends and family are shocked. When the two are alone, explains his double him that he had come to the world after the accident, when Pelham was briefly kicked out of the life.

He was only its assertive and more modern I, and Pelham was really no place in this world. Pelham flees in the car in front of his alter ego, where he falls into a river and died.

Synchronization

Reviews

"Old Fashioned staged, but entertaining thriller, which neglects the psychological background of his subject in favor of superficial tension a bit. "

Comments

Basil Dearden worked in the same year with Roger Moore in the TV series The Two together. He took over for the first two episodes each directed the film.

Screenplay Bryan Forbes Michael Relph Film score Olga Georges-Picot Mystery fiction Crime film Arnold Marquis Oliver Rohrbeck
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