THE ACCIDENT/THE FAMILY WAY (1966)

JOSEPH LOSEY

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Cast

DIRK BOGARDE STANLEY BAKER MICHAEL YORK HAYLEY MILLS JOHN MILLS HYWEL BENNETT JOHN CORNER LIZ FRASER WILFRED PICKLES AVRIL ANGERS PAUL MCCARTNEY HAROLD PINTER ROY BOULTING JEFFREY DELL

Plot

The Accident (1967):- a languid Oxford summer is the background to this self-assured treatment of Harold Pinter's screenplay. A calm veneer of civilization is laboriously peeled away, after an undergraduate is killed in a car crash and his girlfriend stays with a philosophy professor, setting the six central characters (three men, two wives and the girl) at odds as they gradually tear each other to shreds. Superb performances and a disconcertingly urbane atmosphere.