3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Accident

Zamy from , 1st May, 2009

This is the second of the three collaborations between Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter in the 1960's and in my view is probably the least successful; although the style is similar and shares similar credentials in putting the British class system under scruitiny. The ridiculous stiff upper lip quality in upper class Englishmen does not make for very interesting viewing, however, and the acting is less compelling than in 'The Servant' and 'The Go-Between'. Pinter himself appears as a BBC producer in an oddly unconvincing scene. That said, Pinter's spare, economical dialogue almost always rings true and the film is still worth watching.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Pretentious & Dull - worth giving a miss!

A Customer from Farnham, 9th July, 2009

I missed this movie when it came out, to good reviews, back in the 60s and so I waited some 40 years to see it. What a disappointment and what a waste of good actors it turned out to be! The story line is dull beyond belief, the dialogue is artificial, not one of the characters arouses one’s sympathy or interest and there is a general air of pretentious self-congratulation about the whole production. Added to this is a ghastly, caterwauling music score, which wails away throughout the movie like a cat with stomach ache and seems to have been bolted-on without any regard as to whether it added to the overall mood or was relevant to any part of the action. Life is too short to waste watching such rubbish - give it a miss!

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