Accident Page #4

Synopsis: The Oxford professor of philosophy Stephen has two favorite pupils, the athletic aristocrat William and the Austrian Anna von Graz. Stephen is a frustrated man, with a negligent wife, Rosalind, who is pregnant of their third child, and is envious of the Oxford professor Charley that 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.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Joseph Losey
Production: Rialto Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
Year:
1967
105 min
$17,161
Website
437 Views


Your producer!

- With old Bill Smith?

- We're going home now.

Asked to see me.

You're... going to appear

on my television show.

And I will run you out of town, kid.

- Stephen, he wants to drive back.

- Who does?

William!

Do you hear me?

I'll drive you home.

Impossible!

He's drunk!

- I'll drive.

- You haven't got a licence.

- William, can I drive?

- No, you'll have to stay.

I will drive.

We'd better stay.

- Well, I'll drive!

- No, you won't!

- Well, then Charley can drive.

- Oh, to hell!

Look here.

Come on, boy.

You are slightly drunk.

You may stay.

Why the bloody hell

do you want us to bloody well stay?

Come on now.

Will you excuse me?

But of course, my dear fellow.

They're staying.

Which room is everybody in?

How the hell should I know?

Splendid day.

It gives me great pleasure

to know that you enjoyed

your day with us.

Good night.

Good night.

Anna?

Rosalind.

Darling.

What?

I love you.

Mm.

Reception.

Yes, I see. Thank you.

I'm afraid Mr Smith isn't here.

Will you see Mr Bell?

Er... all right.

Turn right as you go out.

One flight down to the annexe.

- It's the fifth door on the left.

- Thank you.

You can't miss it.

Hello. I'm Bell.

Remember me? I'm Bell.

- Erm...

- I was up at Oxford.

Oh, yes, of course.

How are you?

Bill Smith's iII. He's in hospital.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

- I've got to see him. Got that file?

- I don't actually know him.

- You don't know him?

What did he want you for?

Do you know?

- Well, I think...

- Do you ever see Francesca?

- Who?

- Francesca. The provost's daughter.

The daughter of the provost.

Ah, yes.

No, I don't.

You knew her well.

I've been married for some years.

Well done.

Ah, yes. Bill was thinking of you

for the panel.

I've got to see him in a minute.

He's very iII.

- What's the matter with Bill?

- He's in hospital.

Mr Bill's secretary...

I think he was thinking of me for...

He was perfectly all right yesterday.

We had a drink together.

- I don't believe it.

- I don't know what his plans were.

What happened to him?

Perhaps I can let you know.

He collapsed last night.

Look, why don't you come and see him?

I'm going there now to see him.

- What time are you going?

- I'm going now.

All right. Sorry about this.

Give my love to Francesca.

- I haven't see her.

- Are you going straightaway?

I'm going right away! Now!

'Hello?'

'Hello?

'Hello?'

Francesca?

'I was in my bath

when you phoned.

'You haven't changed at all.

Not at all.'

'Wonderful to see you.'

'I was in my bath

when you phoned.'

'Well, it must be... ten years?'

'Ten years?

'It can't be.

'Must be.'

'It must be.'

'It is.'

'You don't look a day older.'

'Oh, really?

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964), and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993), and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, east London, and educated at Hackney Downs School. He was a sprinter and a keen cricket player, acting in school plays and writing poetry. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course. He was fined for refusing National service as a conscientious objector. Subsequently, he continued training at the Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in repertory theatre in Ireland and England. In 1956 he married actress Vivien Merchant and had a son, Daniel, born in 1958. He left Merchant in 1975 and married author Lady Antonia Fraser in 1980. Pinter's career as a playwright began with a production of The Room in 1957. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. His early works were described by critics as "comedy of menace". Later plays such as No Man's Land (1975) and Betrayal (1978) became known as "memory plays". He appeared as an actor in productions of his own work on radio and film. He also undertook a number of roles in works by other writers. He directed nearly 50 productions for stage, theatre and screen. Pinter received over 50 awards, prizes, and other honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 and the French Légion d'honneur in 2007. Despite frail health after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in December 2001, Pinter continued to act on stage and screen, last performing the title role of Samuel Beckett's one-act monologue Krapp's Last Tape, for the 50th anniversary season of the Royal Court Theatre, in October 2006. He died from liver cancer on 24 December 2008. more…

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