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.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.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.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 nomination total
Hardy Krüger
- Jan Van Rooyen
- (as Hardy Kruger)
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)
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Did you know
- TriviaJoseph Losey had wanted Peter O'Toole to play the detective, but the producers were looking for a better known actor, and so they went with Stanley Baker. Obviously, since this would begin a four picture collaboration with Losey and Baker, the square-jawed Welsh actor had ultimately impressed the director in the role.
- GoofsMorgan grills Van Rooyen in the flat in a bizarre and unprofessional manner that would be supremely unlikely even in the late-1950s Metropolitan Police: prolonged but ad hoc interview at the crime scene itself; displaying the body to the prime suspect; giving unnecessary pertinent information to the prime suspect.
- SoundtracksI'm A Lonely Man
(uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodney Bennett
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Sung by Hardy Krüger
Featured review
Best of Losey
Joseph Losey was the USA's loss and the UK's gain. He was a great director because he took chances on subject matter, and he made excellent films as well as disappointing ones. All original director's do, and ' Blind Date ' is in my opinion one of his best. Hardy Kruger playing a young Dutch artist ( brilliant acting ) meets up with a very beautiful Micheline Presle, and a murder opens the film and Kruger arrives at the right place at the wrong time. The place is ( probably ) set in Chelsea, London and I have a hunch Losey liked Chelsea as he set the famous film of his ' The Servant ' there. Cat and mouse games happen in that film, and they happen too in ' Blind Date. ' Kruger is suspected of murder and Stanley Baker plays an over aggressive policeman and a lot of the film is a game of entrapment and a rapid confession. Between these scenes we go back in time to the murder victim, played by Presle at her very best, and without explicit sex the film exudes eroticism. A lot of the visuals that Losey seemed to like a lot; mirrors, cluttered interiors etc are all there, and made as it was in 1959 it equalled any film made by Louis Malle or Claude Chabrol in France. But Losey was his own man, and as well as leaving the USA he brought over with him shades of nightmares that are there in ' M ' and in ' The Big Night. ' I give no spoilers about the end only that the last words said by Presle ( and in passion ) will resonate in my mind for a long time. This is no minor work of Losey and it should be rated far higher than it is. I dare to use that overused word masterpiece again, and it is my personal favourite of his films as it shows just how close love is to dislike, indifference and betrayal. Watch it on the UK's Talking Pictures, or on YouTube or be generous and buy it. If you own it I bet you will want to see it much more than once to catch the fine dialogue, superb acting and a London that was once achingly beautiful.
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- jromanbaker
- Feb 15, 2023
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- Also known as
- Die tödliche Falle
- Filming locations
- Beaconsfield Film Studios, Station Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(studio: Beaconsfield Studios, London, England)
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- Budget
- £138,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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