my_dogs_are_barking

Just watched this film for the first time. Didn't think much of it at all. VERY univentful and dare I say boring film.
It just didn't work for me.
What does everyone else think of it?

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lancethecook

i agree totaly, i found it very hard work , so youre not on youre own.

MrDrakesDuck

Good film IMO.

I really like the brooding atmosphere.

The type of movie you need to be in the mood for.

"I thought I had to shoot Germans, not chew 'em"

ollie

Absolutly love it!,one man's meat(ooh err)horses for courses,etc.
cheers Ollie.

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aaron

Known as just 'Accident' untill recent release.. Not one of my favourites.. although some excellent performances. Perhaps trys to be to arty.. I love a bit of subtlety and reading between the lines in a film, but this film over does it to the point that you don't care enough about the characters...
Strangely, this was released on UK dvd double-bill with the excellent comedy/drama 'The Family Way' which was a very strange coupling.

'He who is not one up...Is one down'

Redstar

Does anyone have this 1967 film starring Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker? Is it worth buying?

Windthrop

If you like the other collaborations between Losey with Baker and Bogarde then you won't be disapointed IMHO. It is one of Baker's last really worthwhile films before his decline and he is superb. Both he and Bogarde are in tune with Pinter's screenplay. The then Mrs Pinter Vivien Merchant is on fine form in this one as well.

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batman

It's available to buy via amazon.co.uk and is an excellent film. Highly recommended for those who like to see good actors performing good writing.

Amazon.co.uk: Accident [1967]: DVD: Dirk Bogarde,Stanley Baker,Michael York,Vivien Merchant,Delphine Seyrig,Alexander Knox,Joseph Losey

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Bilmo

I am sorry to say that I agree with the first comments. With the cast, one would have expected something more interesting. However, I regret that I found it quite tedious and I really cannot say I enjoyed watching it. I've watched it twice now and still felt the same. The settings and the cast are excellent, but the film somehow just doesn't do anything for me.

AdrianTurner

I have to say that I regard Accident as one of the five or six greatest British movies of the 60s. I have the R1 DVD and watch it once a year - in fact I saw it only a fortnight ago. I am not really a Losey fan but this film, along with The Go-Between, I just adore. Accident is a sublime analysis of the British intelligentsia, written by Pinter with stunning insight and blackest wit. It's an incredibly modern movie, clearly indebted to Alain Resnais (Delphine Seyrig's cameo is the more obvious clue), with its elliptical time structure and more-than-meets-the-eye styling. The performances are exemplary - Stanley Baker as the slobbish and womanising Oxford don who rather intimidates Dirk Bogarde's more cerebral character. There is Vivien Merchant as Bogarde's down-to-earth wife, Michael York as the aristocratic student and Jacqueline Sassard as a rather glacial but absolutely pivotal Austrian princess, around whom all the male emotions ebb and flow. It is a movie about character, it's tough and also hilarious - the never-ending lunch-tea-dinner party is a tour-de-force. Only the very last shot is flawed - a dog ruined it. A masterpiece, if you ask me.

asiamiles

Unfortunately her hubbie delivers the film's worst performance...not really sure what he's doing in there. I think ACCIDENT is superior to Losey's better known collaboration with Bogarde THE SERVANT, but perhaps not as interesting as one of his even earlier films with Baker, EVA. I do think Losey's work is infused with self-importance (EVA screams of "arthouse!"), and I have a fairly low opinion of some of his films which I think fail even on the most basic level, but curiously I really like some of the others which often seem to work in spite of themselves. I'd really love to have BLIND DATE on DVD; it's a fairly straightforward mystery, but one I have always had a soft spot for.

Bruce

Yes I agree - I've always counted 'Accident' as one of the great classics of the 1960's and one of the greatest British films ever. I'd better declare that I'm a Pinter admirer anyway, but he did a beautiful job of adapting Nicholas Moseley's novel. One of my favourite moments comes at the end of the long Sunday party when a rather drunk Stanley Baker asks an equally drunk Dirk Bogarde: "Which room is everybody in?"

Of course that last shot unfortunately caused much confusion. When the dog runs out into the road and we hear the sound of the accident being replayed on the soundtrack, many people believed that the dog must have somehow caused the original accident. In fact, the dog was supposed to go into the house. Bogarde held the door open just as long as he could, but the dog didn't co-operate. As the light was fading, they couldn't do another take. A pity, but it doesn't really harm the film significantly.

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vanmunchen

Accident is a brilliant film. I saw it several times when it first opened in cinemas. Great screenplay, great photography and wonderful subtle performances. A pity that the DVD does not do justice to the original picture quality.

AdrianTurner

It is a film of tremendous subtlety. I particularly like the moment during the drunken dinner party when Baker says to Sassard - "you don't have a [driving] licence" which is the first clue that Baker and Sassard have, er, met before. This is Pinter at his absolute best and I like his shrill cameo because it shatters the intellectual quietude and complacency of Bogarde's existence. Nicholas Moseley is also lovely as the quietly flowing don who is clearly disgusted by Baker's earthiness. Oh, what a movie this is. You can dissect these characters for days on end.

As for the dog, I feel Losey could have effectively cut that entire final sequence and ended with the last shot of Oxford. But by doing that he would lose the symmetry. What a pity he couldn't digitalise the dog!

Lerica

I have to say, as a Baker fan, when I first watched Accident, I didn't like it all! But after a few viewings it has 'grown' me....as I've tried to see what others have seen and appreciated from the first.
However I have to agree with another poster here, I do much prefer, The Criminal and Blind Date, as the better of the Losey/Baker films.

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