There's really a lot of potential in the supernatural TV movie where race car driver Leonard Nimoy all of the sudden finds after an accident that he has the ability to forecast people's deaths. He ends up at a bed and breakfast at a mansion in the English countryside (run by the phenomenal Rachel Roberts giving a beautiful performance), and this leads to a series of events involving the daughter of movie actress Vera Miles that seems to involve the occult. Susan Hampshire plays a reporter with an interest in spiritual matters of this sort, and she becomes involved in Nimoy's discovery of this gift that leads to a whole series of bizarre occurrences.
Tons of great ideas on the table, but a middle segment becomes confusing and rather shoddily developed. There's an interesting performance by an unknown British actress named Valarie Taylor who reminds me of British beauties turned character actress legends Cathleen Nesbitt and Gladys Cooper. Roberts, usually made up to look dowdy or severe, is actually quite attractive here, and she adds a great deal of mystery to her character who is obviously much more complex than she seems.
The story involving Miles' daughter really isn't interesting enough to hold the story together, and while Miles is still glamorous and talented, it's hard to imagine her as the film legend that everybody refers to her here as. When this focuses on the mysterious goings on surrounding the country estate, it is intriguing, but it veers off several times into plot twists and subplots that threatened to lose the viewer. If this was indeed meant as a pilot, I don't see any possibility of a series coming out of it.
Tons of great ideas on the table, but a middle segment becomes confusing and rather shoddily developed. There's an interesting performance by an unknown British actress named Valarie Taylor who reminds me of British beauties turned character actress legends Cathleen Nesbitt and Gladys Cooper. Roberts, usually made up to look dowdy or severe, is actually quite attractive here, and she adds a great deal of mystery to her character who is obviously much more complex than she seems.
The story involving Miles' daughter really isn't interesting enough to hold the story together, and while Miles is still glamorous and talented, it's hard to imagine her as the film legend that everybody refers to her here as. When this focuses on the mysterious goings on surrounding the country estate, it is intriguing, but it veers off several times into plot twists and subplots that threatened to lose the viewer. If this was indeed meant as a pilot, I don't see any possibility of a series coming out of it.