Accident

"The story of a love triangle... and the four people trapped in it!"

May 18 1967 Not Rated 1h 45m
Drama

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.

Plot

The Oxford Professor of Philosophy Stephen (Sir Dirk Bogarde) has two favorite pupils, the athletic aristocrat William (Michael York) and the Austrian Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard). Stephen is a frustrated man, with a negligent wife, Rosalind (Vivien Merchant), who is pregnant of their third child, and is envious of the Oxford professor Charley (Stanley Baker), who has a television show. Stephen feels attracted to Anna, but William woos her and she becomes his girlfriend. Charley has a love affair with Anna, but when things go wrong, Anna must leave town.

Written by

Nicholas Mosley, Harold Pinter

Directed by

Joseph Losey

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

Royal Avenue Chelsea

Languages

English

Awards

Nominated for 4 BAFTA 5 wins & 9 nominations total

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Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
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