The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

A man (Roger Moore) finds himself in bewildering circumstances after recovering from a near fatal car accident. Friends and colleagues repeatedly sight him in places he's never been, a girl (Olga Georges Picot) he has briefly seen only once claims an intimate relationship with him. Does he have a doppelganger ..... or is he losing his mind? Based on the novel THE STRANGE CASE OF MR. PELHAM by Anthony Armstrong and directed by Basil Dearden (KHARTOUM) in his final film. Armstrong's book had previously been adapted for an episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS in 1955 but there it had been done whimsically. Dearden has made it a psychological horror film. Roger Moore (three years before he became James Bond) is startingly good here, his best ever performance. Initial reviews were dismissive but in the ensuing years, it's become a cult movie. Dearden does a good job of building the tension until the clever if unsound conclusion. Although I consider it a horror movie, there are no scares or violence but the horror of a situation you have no control over. A movie worth rediscovering. With Hildegard Neil, Freddie Jones, Anton Rodgers and Thorley Walters.