That was an excellent one.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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.

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 intriguing chiller has an original premise for once - a man is haunted, not by a ghost, but by his own double! This clever idea manages to carry the entire film, which is in itself quite slow-moving but nonetheless gripping thanks to a solid central performance from a pre-Bond Roger Moore. Moore has never been regarded as much of an actor but I think he does admirably well here, conveying the frustration and fear at a life slowly falling apart extremely well.For once this film fully explores the central theme, and never explains whether Moore is ill or is really being haunted until the end of the film. Until then, the tension is gradually wracked up with events becoming stranger and stranger until it seems that there is no escape for the poor, harassed Moore. He starts off as an immaculately dressed businessman and ends up as an unkempt wreck - a transformation with devastating consequences. Moore even provokes sympathy in some pivotal sequences, especially the final confrontation with his doppelganger in which even his family do not recognise him anymore - a heartbreaking moment.Lots of familiar British character actors pop up in minor roles. Thorley Walters is his usual bumbling self, while familiar hammer players Gerald Sim, John Carson, and even Charles Lloyd-Pack flesh out small parts. But it's Freddie Jones and Kevork Malikyan who stand out as a psychiatrist (inevitably loopier than his patients) and Spanish manservant respectively - both giving their hammy best in over-the-top parts.This is a fun, engaging and totally unique film which is a delight to watch and doesn't require any brain work whatsoever. Thus it's an extremely easy and enjoyable film to have on, although I'm not too sure of the repeat potential - once you know what happens, there's not much point sitting through it all again. For the most part, though, this is an unfairly forgotten gem of British cinema, dated, yes, but miles better than you would probably imagine and than reviews would have you think.

An excellent low-budget British thriller with Roger Moore in a double role as a placid London city-gent who lets his suppressed wilder side out behind the wheel of his car only for the inevitable resulting car crash to quite literally split him in two. From them on, the mystery of Moore's doppelgänger deepens, taking in out-of-character visits to a snooker club and casino, murky dealings in the city and a dalliance with a young female photographer, before the nail-biting climax sees him finally catch up with and then attempt to run away from himself only for another car-crash to bring about a final, satisfactory conclusion.Moore is very good, yes believe it, very good as the anguished businessman in two minds (and bodies) about himself, displaying both facets of his character's character (if you follow me) as one struggles to track down and the other to exert supremacy over the other. No Simon Templar or of course James Bond-in-waiting this, indeed, Moore's character suffers from impotence, of all things. Of course the story is highly preposterous and could be viewed as an extended, more adult version of an episode of contemporary ITC productions like "Randall and Hopkirk Deceased" or "Department S" but this sort of stuff is in Moore's DNA and he plays his characters arrow-straight and convinces the viewer that he is perhaps losing his mind.There's good support from the reliable Anton Rogers as his colleague and confidante in the firm, while Hildegard Neil is quietly effective as Moore's dissatisfied and disbelieving wife. Director Basil Deardon, who by a tragic coincidence died only 18 months after making this film also in a terrible car crash, keeps the tension stoked throughout, gradually leading the audience to the unlikely yet inevitable conclusion to the drama. The London settings, seen today over 40 years later, are evocative, although the fashions and in particular the muzaky soundtrack do date it somewhat. There's also an accidentally amusing moment when Moore's character deprecatingly if presciently compares himself to James Bond.Nevertheless, this is a genuinely intriguing and involving mystery thriller with a touch of the supernatural about it to give it that little extra edge.No two ways about it...