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Blind Date

CrimeDramaMystery

Duration

1h 35m

Release

1 Aug 1959

Country

United StatesUnited Kingdom

Language

English

Overview

Dutch painter Jan-Van 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. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer 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 names must be kept out of the case.

Plot

In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.

Cast

Hardy KrügerStanley BakerMicheline Presle

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10

Details

Director

Joseph Losey

Writers

Ben BarzmanMillard LampellLeigh Howard

Awards

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 nomination total
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