Blind Date (1959)

Dutch painter JanVan Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline 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. Director: Joseph Losey. AKA Chance Meeting. Writers: Ben Barzman Millard Lampell (screenplay), Leigh Howard (novel). Stars: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, John Van Eyssen, Gordon Jackson, Robert Flemyng, Jack MacGowran, Redmond Phillips, George Roubicek, Lee Montague. Cinematographer: Christopher Challis. Composer: Richard Rodney Bennett. 1960 BAFTA Awards Nominated for Best British Screenplay.