10 Most Nerve-Wracking Scenes In Non-Horror Films

There was little Peter O'Toole could do wrong in the 70s, so when he called his manager after hitting every pub in Soho with director Peter Yates and said, "I'm with the crazy Hungarian and I know I'm drunk but I give you 24 hours to set this movie up," you know you need to get your ass to work.

The product, a satirical play and script by Peter Barnes, features O'Toole as a newly appointed Earl of Gurney after his predecessor dies of autoerotic asphyxiation. He also happens to believe he's the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and pledges to bring peace and love and charity back to the world. While everyday English politicians meddle and fight to have him committed, he seems unstoppable.

It's a brutal satire and takedown of the absurdity of privilege, with O'Toole regularly breaking into song and exposing himself. Divisive among critics at the time for being a little too over-the-top, it's also a film that seems to have fallen through the cracks in recent years - a shame for O'Toole's performance alone.

Things take a much more frightening turn, however, after he has taken his rightful place in the House of Lords, seemingly freed from delusion and preaching right-wing political points to rapturous applause. But, in his mind, his audience is full of rotting corpses and he's no longer Jesus of Jack Gurney, but Jack the Ripper.