Accident is a 1967 drama film based on a novel by Nicholas Mosley and directed by Joseph Losey with a script by Harold Pinter. It is the second writer/director collaboration of Pinter and Losey, preceded by The Servant and followed by The Go-Between. The running time is 105 minutes.

Plot

The story centers on a married Oxford professor, Stephen, who is experiencing a mid-life crisis. The world changes for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful young woman who is engaged to one of his students. The young woman is forced to stay with the professor while his wife is out of town, following an accident outside of their home in which the student to whom she is engaged was killed. While the Oxford professor believes that he is in control of the events that will eventually lead to the destruction of his marriage, we soon discover that Anna isn't so innocent. The crowning metaphor of the film comes at the end when we see an unhurt Anna (in a flashback) crushing her dying fiancée beneath her spike-heeled foot as she steps on his face while trying desperately to climb out of the overturned car.

Cast includes

• Dirk Bogarde
• Stanley Baker
• Jacqueline Sassard
• Michael York
• Vivien Merchant
• Delphine Seyrig
• Alexander Knox
• Anne Firbank
• Brian Phelan
• Terence Rigby
• Freddie Jones
• Jill Johnson
• Jane Hillary
• Maxwell Findlater
• Carole Caplin

External link

1967 films | Films directed by Joseph Losey

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