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Blind Date (1959) [N/A]

Release Date:
August 1, 1959

Original Title:
Blind Date

Alternate Titles:
Chance Meeting
L'enquête de l'inspecteur Morgan

Genres:
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Production Companies:
Independent Artists
Paramount Pictures
Sydney Box Productions

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16 

Runtime: 95

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Harry Pottle
Edward Carrick

Assistant Director:
René Dupont

Assistant Editor:
Harry Ledger

Boom Operator:
Geoffrey Kidd

Camera Operator:
Malcolm Cooke

Conductor:
Malcolm Arnold

Continuity:
Susan Dyson

Director:
Joseph Losey

Director of Photography:
Christopher Challis

Draughtsman:
Eric Saw

Editor:
Reginald Mills

First Assistant Editor:
Noreen Best

Hairstylist:
Maude Onslow

Makeup Artist:
Trevor Crole-Rees

Musician:
John Scott

Novel:
Leigh Howard

Original Music Composer:
Richard Rodney Bennett

Producer:
David Deutsch
Luggi Waldleitner

Production Manager:
George Mills

Production Secretary:
Sheila Bagshaw

Property Buyer:
Percy Godbold

Screenplay:
Millard Lampell
Ben Barzman

Second Assistant Director:
Charles Hammond

Sound Editor:
Malcolm Cooke

Sound Recordist:
Len Page

Third Assistant Director:
Gus Angus

Title Designer:
Richard Macdonald

Unit Publicist:
Ruth Lipton

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Vi Murray

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