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22 June 1967 (Denmark) morePlot:
Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations moreUser Comments:
The best of the 3 Losey-Pinter collaborations moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dirk Bogarde | ... | Stephen | |
| Stanley Baker | ... | Charley | |
| Jacqueline Sassard | ... | Anna | |
| Michael York | ... | William | |
| Vivien Merchant | ... | Rosalind | |
| Delphine Seyrig | ... | Francesca | |
| Alexander Knox | ... | College Provost | |
| Ann Firbank | ... | Laura | |
| Brian Phelan | ... | Police Sergeant | |
| Terence Rigby | ... | Plainclothes Policeman | |
| Freddie Jones | ... | Man in Bell's Office | |
| Jill Johnson | ... | Secretary | |
| Jane Hillary | ... | Receptionist | |
| Maxwell Findlater | ... | Ted | |
| Carole Caplin | ... | Clarissa |
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Canterbury Quad, St. John's College, St Giles', Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK moreFun Stuff
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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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Following their work on "The Servant" (1963) and before the more well-known, "The Go-Between" (1971), "Accident" can be seen as the best - certainly the most understated - of the collaborations between the English playwright, Harold Pinter, and the expatriate American director, Joseph Losey, who had lived and worked in London for some years.
As Pinter said in a 1966 interview: "So in this film everything is buried, it is implicit. There is really very little dialogue, and that is mostly trivial, meaningless. The drama goes on inside the characters." In the published screenplay his directions for one scene indicate that "the words are fragments of realistic conversation. They are not thoughts..." and what comes across is the brilliant contrast between the nondescript, mundane, day-to-day attempts at communication between the characters combined with a hard look at the underlying reality of the characters' situations. Nothing is like it seems to be.
If you like the work of Harold Pinter, this rarely-available film, is a brilliant addition. See it in combination with the other two to get a full picture of what Losey and Pinter achieved. I've seen the films at least 10 times each and they formed the basis of my 1974 MA thesis on the Pinter-Losey collaboration.