Accident (film)

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Accident
Image:Accident movie poster.jpg
Directed by	Joseph Losey
Produced by	Joseph Losey Norman Priggen
Written by	Harold Pinter (screenplay) based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley
Starring	Dirk Bogarde Stanley Baker Jacqueline Sassard
Music by	John Dankworth
Distributed by	London Independent Producers
Release date(s)	February 1967
Running time	105 min
Language	English
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Accident is a 1967 dramatic 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.

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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.