Accident (motion picture)

Accident (motion picture), British drama about a married philosophy professor (played by Dirk Bogarde) at the University of Oxford who wants to have an affair with one of his students (Delphine Seyrig). Released in 1967, it won the Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize. British playwright Harold Pinter based the screenplay on a novel by Nicholas Mosley. Much of the action occurs during a long, drunken Sunday afternoon party where the professor tries to cope with his sexual frustration.

Director

• Joseph Losey

Cast

• Dirk Bogarde (Stephen)
• Stanley Baker (Charley)
• Jacqueline Sassard (Anna)
• Delphine Seyrig (Francesca)
• Alexander Knox (Provost)
• Michael York (William)
• Vivien Merchant (Rosalind)
• Harold Pinter (Bell)
• Ann Firbank (Laura)
• Brian Phelan (Police sergeant)
• Freddie Jones (Frantic man)
• Nicholas Mosley (Hedges)
• Terence Rigby (Plainclothes policeman)
• Jill Johnson (Secretary)
• Jane Hillary (Receptionist)
• Maxwell Findlater (Ted)
• Carole Caplin (Clarissa)

Awards

• Cannes Film Festival Grand Special Prix Du Jury (1967)