''The Man Who Wouldn't Die'' is a 1995 action mystery film by director Bill Condon. The film, which aired as a movie of the week during the May Sweeps in 1995, stars Roger Moore, Nancy Allen and

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. Internationally, it received either a theatrical or direct-to-video release.

Synopsis

In ''The Man Who Wouldn't Die'' art imitates life for Thomas Grace ( Roger Moore), a famous British ex-novelist who wrote a series of acclaimed crime stories featuring a villain patterned after real-life criminal Bernard Drake (

). Now living in America, Grace works as a hack reporter for a city newspaper. After reading one of Grace's books, Jessie Gallardo ( Nancy Allen), a waitress with burgeoning psychic abilities, predicts several murders—with Grace as one of the victims. Her visions identify the enemy as Drake, who has escaped from prison by faking his own death in a fire. As Drake sets out to frame the author for a series of grisly murders based around his novels, it is up to Thomas and Jessie to clear their names, stop him, and stay alive in the process.

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co-stars as a doubtful newspaper colleague.

Cast

* Roger Moore as Thomas Grace / Inspector Fulbright * Nancy Allen as Jessie Gallardo *

as Bernard Drake / Ian Morrissey *

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as Lt. Powers *

as Jack Sullivan *Roman Podhora as Walter Tilley *

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as Art Sycophant * Roger R. Cross as McKinnon * Kevin McNulty as Curruthers

Reception

BBC's '' Radio Times'' gave the movie 3 stars, saying it had a "dark sense of fun" that was "surely worth an hour and a half of anyone's time." ''

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'' said the film was "thoroughly enjoyable" and "as polished and as surprising as any good mystery drama can provide".

References

External links

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