Blind Date (U.S. title: Chance Meeting) is a 1959 British murder mystery film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, and Micheline Presle. Based on the 1955 novel Blind Date by Leigh Howard.
Storyline:
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyen hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacquleine Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens skeptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyen as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose name must be kept out of the case.
Credits
Hardy Krüger as Jan Van Rooyer
Stanley Baker as Inspector David Evan Morgan
Micheline Presle as "Jacqueline Cousteau" (Lady Fenton)
John Van Eyssen as Inspector Westover
Gordon Jackson as uniformed Police Sergeant
Robert Flemyng as Sir Brian Lewis
Jack MacGowran as postman
Redmond Phillips as Police Doctor
George Roubicek as Police Constable
Lee Montague as Sergeant Farrow
Rest of cast listed alphabetically
Edward Cast Police Officer at Airport (uncredited)
Robert Crewdson Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Shirley Davien Girl on Bus (uncredited)
Christina Lubicz The Real Jacqueline Cousteau (uncredited)
David Markham Sir Howard Fenton (uncredited)
Soundtrack:
I'm A Lonely Man (uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodney Bennett
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Sung by Hardy Krüger
Comments