Joseph Losey’s Accident Set For Vintage Classics 4K Release!

Studiocanal UK’s Vintage Classics Collection is about to make room for another fine film. Next month Joseph Losey’s (The Go-Between, The Sleeping Tiger) 1967 award-winning classic drama, Accident and you can enjoy it in glorious 4K!

With a screenplay by the legendary Harold Pinter (The Servant) and a standout performance from long-time Losey collaborator Dirk Bogarde (Darling). Accident   adaptation of Nicholas Mosley’s novel of the same name, Bogarde is ably supported by a cast including Jacqueline Sassard (Les Biches), Stanley Baker (The Criminal), Michael York (The Lion in Winter) and Vivien Merchant (Alfie).

Synopsis | “The story of a love triangle … and the four people trapped in it!”
Stephen (Dirk Bogarde) is a middle-aged professor at Oxford University. Stifled by his life of marriage and academia, he yearns for an affair with his beautiful and enigmatic student Anna (Jacqueline Sassard). He is locked into a battle for Anna’s affection against her fiancé, William (Michael York), whose youthful vitality he envies, and with his friend and academic rival Charley (Stanley Baker – Zulu), whose media profile and sexual success he covets.

EXTRAS
-NEW – Course Collision: Pamela Hutchinson on Accident
-NEW – Starting by Accident: An Interview with dialogue coach Claire Davidson
-NEW – Maxwell Caulfield interviewed by Michael Billington
-Audio commentary by Kat Ellinger
-John Coldstream on Dirk Bogarde
-Interview with Harold Pinter expert Harry Burton
-Interview with feminist author and academic Melanie Williams
-Interview with film critic Tim Robey
-Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter discuss Accident (1967)
-Behind the Scenes Stills gallery
-Colour Lobby Cards gallery
-Trailer

Accident will be available to own on 4K UHD, and on Blu-ray from 28th September.

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