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Blind Date 1959 Directed by Joseph Losey

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.

Production Country United Kingdom
Language English
Spoken Language English
Release Date 1 August 1959
95 mins
Cast
Hardy Krüger Jan-Van Rooyer
Stanley Baker Insp. Morgan
Micheline Presle Jacqueline Cousteau
John Van Eyssen Insp. Westover
Gordon Jackson Sergeant
Robert Flemyng Sir Brian Lewis
Redmond Phillips Police doctor
George Roubicek Police constable
Lee Montague Sgt. Farrow