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| Directed by | Joseph Losey |
| Screenplay by | Harold Pinter |
| Based on | Accident 1965 novel by Nicholas Mosley |
| Produced by | Joseph Losey Norman Priggen |
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde Stanley Baker Jacqueline Sassard |
| Cinematography | Gerry Fisher |
| Edited by | Reginald Beck |
| Music by | John Dankworth |
| Distributed by | London Independent Producers |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £299,970.00[1] or £272,811[2][3] |
| Box office | £40,010 (UK gross)[2] £95,153 (world gross)[2] |
Accident is a 1967 British drama film directed by Joseph Losey. Written by Harold Pinter, it is an adaptation of the 1965 novel Accident by Nicholas Mosley. It is the third of four Losey–Pinter collaborations; the others being The Servant (1963), Modesty Blaise (1966) and The Go-Between (1971).[4] At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, Accident won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury award.[5] It also won the Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association.
- ^ Edith de Rham, Joseph Losey, André Deutsch, 1991, p. 180.
- ^ a b c Caute, David (1994). Joseph Losey. Oxford University Press. p. 204.
- ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press, p. 360, gives the figure as £281,555.
- ^ Nick James (27 June 2007). "Joseph Losey & Harold Pinter: In Search of PoshLust Times". BFI. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
From Venetian decadence and British class war to Proustian time games, the films of Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter gave us a new, ambitious, high-culture kind of art film, says Nick James.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Accident". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 2009-03-08.