Accident (1967)

Accident (1966)

Budget (GBP)	299,970
Distribution Company	London Independent Producers (Distributor \| Est. 1951)
Release Date	9 February 1967
Black and White	No
Regional Release	Yes
Release Notes	UK 6 February 1967 (London); USA 17 April 1967 (New York City, New York); France 5 May 1967 (Cannes Film Festival); France 7 June 1967; Denmark 22 June 1967; Finland 11 August 1967; Belgium 22 September 1967 (Gent); Ireland 22 September 1967; Italy 19 October 1967; Portugal 24 October 1967; Spain 30 October 1967 (Madrid); Sweden 30 October 1967; Spain 31 October 1967 (Barcelona); Czechoslovakia 18 April 1969; West Germany 30 May 1969; Japan 2 August 1969; Austria September 1969. Mexico 12 November 1970. Greece 19 October 2006 (Panorama of European Cinema). France 18 April 2007 (re-release). France 16 May 2009 (Cannes Film Festival). USA 23 May 2014 (re-release) (New York City, New York).
Description	Late one night, Stephen, an Oxford philosophy don, hears a car accident outside his house. He discovers the occupants of the car are two of his students, aristocrat William and William's fiancée, Anna. William is dead, but Anna is well enough to be led back to the house. Stephen phones the police but finds that Anna has slipped upstairs before the police arrive. He tells the police about the accident but does not mention that Anna was in the car. After they have left, he goes upstairs, and, while watching Anna asleep, recalls the events that led up to the accident. Pinter adapted the screenplay of the novel Accident by Nicholas Mosley. Pinter also has a cameo in the film as the character Bell, a TV producer.
Language	English

Linked Productions

No linked Production have been added to this production record yet.

Linked People

Derek V. Browne

Technical | Camera operator

As Derek Browne.

Ted Reed

Technical | Still Photographer

Uncredited.

Maureen Gregson

Production | Unit Publicist

Uncredited.

Linked Organisations

London Independent Producers (Distributor | Est. 1951)

Characters

Ted (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Caulfield appeared in the credits as Maxwell Findlater

Performer: Maxwell Caulfield (1959)

Stephen (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Dirk Bogarde (1921 - 1999)

Clarissa (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Performer: Carole Caplin (1962)

Francesca (Age: mid thirties, Female)

Performer: Delphine Seryig (1932 - 1990)

Laura (Age: mid thirties, Female)

Performer: Ann Firbank (1933)

Provost (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Alexander Knox (1907 - 1995)

Receptionist (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Performer: Jane Hillary

Baby (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Steven Easton

Police Sergeant (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Brian Phelan (1934)

Don Hedges (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Performer: Nicholas Mosley (1923 - 2017)

Rosalind (Age: mid thirties, Female)

Performer: Vivien Merchant (1929 - 1982)

Linked Awards

National Board of Review Award

1967

Named in the Ten Best Films of the Year List

Cannes International Film Festival Award

1967

Won: Special Jury prize

Movie Critics of the Foreign Language Association Award

1967

Won: Best British Film

UNICRIT Prize

1967

Won

Premio di Selezione di Sorrento Award

1967

Won

Grand Prix de l'Union de la Critique de Cinema (Belgium)

1967

Won

Linked Places

Syon House, Brentford

Location for the rough football game in Accident

The Admiral Codrington pub, Chelsea, London

Location of the restaurant in Accident. See: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/accident-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde [Accessed 10 July 2018]

40 Bedford Square, London

The location for Francesca's house in Accident. See: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/accident-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde [Accessed 10 July 2018]

Magdalen bridge, Oxford

Location of punting scene in Accident. See: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/accident-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde [Accessed 10 July 2018]

St John's College, Oxford

Location for scenes in the film, Accident. See: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/accident-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde [Accessed 10 July 2018]

Merton field, Oxford

Location of the cricket match in Accident. See: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/accident-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde [Accessed 10 July 2018]

In the film, Accident, Stephen drops Anna back at her hall early in the morning after the accident of the film's title. The scene is shot in this street, outside Rhodes House. See: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/accident-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde [Accessed 10 July 2018]

Stephen's house (Accident)

The location of the main protagonist Stephen's house, in Accident. See: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/accident-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde [Accessed 10 July 2018]

Resources

New York Times, 18 April 1967,p. 33; 30 April 1967, sec. 2, p. 1; 7 May 1967, sec. 2, p. 1 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Life, 21 April 1967, p. 12 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Time, 21 April 1967, p. 101 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Nation, 15 May 1967, p. 638 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Esquire, June 1967, p. 110-11 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Vogue, June 1967 p. 77 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Christian Century, 7 June 1967, p. 754-55 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Accident Trailer, 1967 (URL)

Type: Trailer

External Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIakXJ3JE2g

Original trailer

Manuscript drafts, Harold Pinter Archive, British Library (URL)

Type: Archival holding

External Link: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/db837348-a698-3b39-8787-4e427d5e4931

Add MS 88880/2/1-2

BFI Filmography statistics page for Joseph Losey's Accident (URL)

Type: Website

External Link: https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/film/150066235

Correspondence with Harold Pinter concerning Accident, Harold Pinter Archive, British Library (URL)

Type: Archival holding

External Link: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/db837348-a698-3b39-8787-4e427d5e4931

Add MS 88880/6/26

Hollis Alpert, 'Where It's Happening', Saturday Review, 29 April 1967, p. 47 (URL)

Type: Review

External Link: https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1967apr29-00047/

Gerry Fisher, 'The Current Cinema, "Inside the Redoubt"', The New Yorker, 22 April 1967, p. 150-51 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

Robert Kotlowitz, 'Four Films from Europe', Harper's Magazine, June 1967, p. 110-11 (Paper-based)

Type: Review

External Link: https://harpers.org/archive/1967/06/four-films-from-europe/

Can be accessed digitally with a subscription.

Sources

Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process

Steven H. Gale, Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003)

Academic book

Contains chapters on each of Harold Pinter's filmed screenplays and includes a bibliography of reviews of films up to 1999.

In search of the locations for Joseph Losey’s Accident

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/accident-locations-joseph-losey-dirk-bogarde

Website

A BFI online article exploring the locations used in Accident.

Edith de Rham's biography of Joseph Losey

Edith de Rham, Joseph Losey (London: Andre Deutsch, 1991)

Biography

IMDB

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061328/

URL

Accessed 7 June 2018

BFI Screenonline

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/457658/synopsis.html

URL

Accessed 30 November 2018

Accident (1967)

Linked Productions

Linked People

Linked Organisations

London Independent Producers (Distributor | Est. 1951)

Characters

Secretary (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Bell (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Man In Bell's Office (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Second Policeman (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Anna (Accident) (Age: 19, Female)

William (Accident) (Age: 40, Male)

Charley (Accident) (Age: 40, Male)

Ted (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Stephen (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Clarissa (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Francesca (Age: mid thirties, Female)

Laura (Age: mid thirties, Female)

Provost (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Receptionist (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Female)

Baby (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Police Sergeant (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Don Hedges (Accident) (Age: Not Specified, Male)

Rosalind (Age: mid thirties, Female)

Linked Awards

Linked Places

Resources

New York Times, 18 April 1967,p. 33; 30 April 1967, sec. 2, p. 1; 7 May 1967, sec. 2, p. 1 (Paper-based)

Life, 21 April 1967, p. 12 (Paper-based)

Time, 21 April 1967, p. 101 (Paper-based)

Nation, 15 May 1967, p. 638 (Paper-based)

Esquire, June 1967, p. 110-11 (Paper-based)

Vogue, June 1967 p. 77 (Paper-based)

Christian Century, 7 June 1967, p. 754-55 (Paper-based)

Accident Trailer, 1967 (URL)

Manuscript drafts, Harold Pinter Archive, British Library (URL)

BFI Filmography statistics page for Joseph Losey's Accident (URL)

Correspondence with Harold Pinter concerning Accident, Harold Pinter Archive, British Library (URL)

Hollis Alpert, 'Where It's Happening', Saturday Review, 29 April 1967, p. 47 (URL)

Gerry Fisher, 'The Current Cinema, "Inside the Redoubt"', The New Yorker, 22 April 1967, p. 150-51 (Paper-based)

Robert Kotlowitz, 'Four Films from Europe', Harper's Magazine, June 1967, p. 110-11 (Paper-based)

Sources

Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process

In search of the locations for Joseph Losey’s Accident

Edith de Rham's biography of Joseph Losey

IMDB

BFI Screenonline