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Movie Description
An artrful, nuanced British film based on a thought-provoking script by Harold Pinter. A forbidden attraction between a repressed, married Oxford professor and his female student climaxes in the allegorial titular accident.
Synopsis
In a screenplay adapted by playwright Harold Pinter, a young woman, who has survived a car crash which has killed her boyfriend, takes refuge in the nearby house of her Oxford professor. He has long desired the girl, and her arrival precipitates a flashback that explores the characters' suppressed emotions and a complex web of romantic entanglements.
Film Notes
Color by Eastmancolor.
Made at Twickenham Studios, London, England.
British playwright Harold Pinter, who wrote the screenplay, also appears in the small role of Bell. His first wife, Vivien Merchant, plays Rosalind.
Additional cast: Jill Johnson (Secretary), Jane Hillary (Receptionist), Maxwell Findlater (Ted), and Carole Caplin (Clarissa).
Rated BBFC PG by the British Board of Film Censors.
Released on video in the UK May 1994.
Copyright 1967 Royal Avenue Chelsea Productions Ltd.
Industry Reviews
"...Menacing, fraught with sexual tension and boasts a wonderfully brooding performance from Stanley Baker..."
Sight and Sound - Geoffrey Macnab (09/01/2003)
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