Drama film here is the plot - anyone know the title?

[deh]

A man driving at night along a deserted small lane finds the way blocked by a large tree lying across the passageway. For some reason, that I can't recall he hides, and watches as another car approaches - the occupant gets out and uses a key to activate a mechanism that lifts up the tree - allowing the car to pass underneath - the tree then is returned to its prostrate position.



The hidden man watches this happen again with the next car that arrives - once the tree is back across the road - he stealthily follows the lane up to a large house. He carefully breaks in and spies from an upper landing a meeting of some form of secret society.

He inadvertently alerts them to his presence - some form of struggle occurs - he hits his head on the stairs (I think) and then wakes up - a number of years later (if I recall correctly I think the time is now 1968 and that some three years have elapsed).



He finds that he has a new name - and a new affluent lifestyle! He is told that he has just received a bump on his head from a fall from his horse whilst playing polo. He realises that he must have suffered amnesia at the mysterious house years previously. When he finds a distinctive key in his desk drawer he is told by his servant (or his wife ?) that, should he ever ask about the key, he must be directed to speak with his physician - a Dr (name I can't recall). He visits the doctor, cautiously - with good reason The doctor has instructed his butler to strangle the man; however the plot fails and the doctor is confronted by the man and reluctantly reveals some of the secrets. Only some, because the doctor has already poisoned himself - he is deemed to have failed to keep the amnesia blocking the man's memory.



Subsequently the man now goes back with the key to the house to discover the full meaning of what occurs there and put right the wrongs.



What is the title of the film?

[Euryale]

Might be Run a Crooked Mile (1969).



More here:



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064910/



E.

[deh]

Thank you Euryale - I shall follow up that lead and attempt to finally watch it again