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Director:
Joseph Losey
Writers:
Nicholas Mosley (novel)
Harold Pinter (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
22 June 1967 (Denmark) more
Genre:
Drama | Crime more
Plot:
Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
Dark, moody movie of the highest class more (16 total)

Cast

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Dirk Bogarde ... Stephen
Stanley Baker ... Charley
Jacqueline Sassard ... Anna

Michael York ... William
Vivien Merchant ... Rosalind
Delphine Seyrig ... Francesca
Alexander Knox ... Provost
Ann Firbank ... Laura
Brian Phelan ... Police Sergeant
Terence Rigby ... Plain Clothed Policeman
Freddie Jones ... Man in Bell's Office
Jill Johnson ... Secretary
Jane Hillary ... Receptionist
Maxwell Findlater ... Ted
Carole Caplin ... Clarissa
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
105 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG
Filming Locations:
Canterbury Quad, St. John's College, St Giles', Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK more
Company:
Royal Avenue Chelsea more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Dirk Bogarde was second choice for Stephen. more
Quotes:
Charley: [reading from learned journal] A statistical analysis of sexual intercourse at Kolenzo University, Milwaukee showed... that 70% did it in the evening, 29.9% between 2 and 4 in the afternoon and 0.1% during a lecture on Aristotle.
Aged Professor: I'm surprised to hear that Aristotle is on the syllabus in the State of Wisconsin.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Le samouraï (1967) more

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12 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Dark, moody movie of the highest class, 11 November 2002
8/10
Author: ian_harris from London, England

Not a lot happens, but we were glued to The Accident. The script is wonderfully understated. Pinter as screenplay writer is a different style from Pinter the playwright. Pinter teases us, though, with a small cameo performance of his own using almost mock-Pinter dialogue for that one short scene. Also of note script-wise is the scene soon after Pinter's scene when Dirk Bogarde visits his old flame in London and the dialogue is almost thoughts, almost dialogue - you don't see either of them actually speaking.

The cinematography on this movie is superb. Oxford in the summer is a soft target for beautiful shots, but this film fills its boots with that beauty. Yet the dark mood never leaves you despite the beauty - partly because 90% of the movie is a flashback, so you have already seen most of the tragedy unfold. Also, the behaviour of the two professors is just so awful. Dirk Bogarde comes across somewhat sympathetically because he is Dirk Bogarde, but the character is a more or less unmitigated toad. The Stanley Baker character is also horrible. The acting of all the main characters is superb.

This is high class stuff - seek it out.

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