Ein Mann jagt sich selbst (OT: The Man Who Haunted Himself) (Wicked Vision Collector's Edition #??) (Mediabook) [Germany]

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Release: 2021

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30 days, 30 announcements for 2021, also known as "say bye to the money you'll make in 2021, even when it's still 2020". This time Wicked Vision announced a movie from 1970, which is the final movie by Basil Dearden shortly before he was killed in an car accident in 1971. It stars Roger Moore (James Bond) in a psychological thriller - and (as already with this movie) is an adaption of a Jekyll and Hyde variant story, that was prior released in a novel called "The Strange Case of Mr Pelham" by Anthony Armstrong.

 

This British movie is a low budget production (in a series of movies) that wanted to gain attraction by including one famous actor, who was willing to work for substantially less then their usual fee. Roger Moore was such an actor. And according to Moore's autobiography as well as many of his interviews, he considers this movie to be the best of his entire career, saying: "It was a film I actually got to act n, rather than just being all white teeth and flippant and heroic". Still, when it was released, the movie that made due with a £200,000 got only negative reviews and didn't perform well in box office. Moore blames the bad and amateurish marketing, and maybe he is right? At least today this movie is perceived differently, newer critics are generally rather positive, and especially the acting of Roger Moore is also perceived by many as the best of his career, some say straight after James Bond, some even dare to say it's better than his role as James Bond.

This Wicked Vision release is again a German HD premiere, and Wicked Vision once more promises a lot of extras with some of them being exclusive. It's also tagged just with Blu-ray and Mediabook, so maybe it'll be a double Blu-ray? Or some other feature, such as a soundtrack or something. We'll see, I guess...

Meanwhile, enjoy the trailer