Accident
The story of a love triangle... and the four people trapped in it!
1967 | 105m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Joseph Losey |
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| Writer: | Harold Pinter, Nicholas Mosley |
| Staring: |
| Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 09, 1967 |
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| Director: | Joseph Losey |
| Writer: | Harold Pinter, Nicholas Mosley |
| Genres: | Drama, Romance, Crime |
| Keywords | based on novel or book, infidelity, obsession, professor, seduction, oxford, flashback, car accident, aristocrat, torment |
| Production Companies | Royal Avenue Chelsea |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $600,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 Caulfield | Ted |
| Carole Caplin | Clarissa |
| Harold Pinter | Bell - TV Producer |
| Nicholas Mosley | Don Hedges |
| Steven Easton | Stephen & Rosalind's Baby (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Joseph Losey | Director |
| Harold Pinter | Screenplay |
| Reginald Beck | Editor |
| Gerry Fisher | Director of Photography |
| Pearl Tipaldi | Hairdresser |
| Bob Lawrance | Makeup Artist |
| Beatrice Dawson | Costume Design |
| Vicki Deason | Production Secretary |
| Alf Pegley | Props |
| Derek V. Browne | Camera Operator |
| Geoffrey Stephenson | Property Buyer |
| Sue Yelland | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Alan Bell | Sound Editor |
| Ted Reed | Still Photographer |
| John Marron | Musician |
| Nicholas Mosley | Novel |
| Gerry Humphreys | Sound Recordist |
| Simon Kaye | Sound Recordist |
| Tony Morris | Construction Manager |
| Geoffrey Haine | Production Supervisor |
| Richard F. Dalton | Assistant Director |
| Pamela Davies | Continuity |
| Theo Cowan | Publicist |
| David Lindup | Orchestrator |
| Maureen Gregson | Unit Publicist |
| John Dankworth | Original Music Composer |
| Carmen Dillon | Art Direction |
| David Snell | Musician |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Norman Priggen | Producer |
| Joseph Losey | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 7 |
| 2024 | 5 | 17 | 26 | 10 |
| 2024 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 9 |
| 2024 | 7 | 14 | 25 | 8 |
| 2024 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 8 |
| 2024 | 9 | 13 | 21 | 6 |
| 2024 | 10 | 14 | 35 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11 | 12 | 36 | 5 |
| 2024 | 12 | 9 | 20 | 6 |
| 2025 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
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Dirk Bogarde is a philosophy professor at Oxford University - happily married with two children; and another on the way. He has a favourite student - Michael York who is keen on a newcomer; the glamorous Austrian Jacqueline Sassard. They have a Sunday lunch with an additional guest in Stanley Baker ... - a fellow professor who is struggling with his own marriage; as well as his - envy evoking - television career. It's a sort of intellectual menage-à-trois - Bogarde fancies his Austrian student but she has eyes on both York and Baker... Even the consumption of excesses of booze at the lunch/dinner/supper doesn't inject much into this. It lacks any degree of edginess or depth - but merely provides us with a spotlight on the bored, affected, educational middle-classes that doesn't really shine anything beyond highlighting the shallowness of the characters created by Nicholas Mosley - and not really enhanced much by Harold Pinter.. The performances, especially from Baker, are good but there just isn't enough substance to generate a spark!