Dirk Bogarde gives a brilliant performance in this psychologically dense and compelling study, scripted by Harold Pinter, of an Oxford don and his infatuation with a beautiful student.
While typing late one night in his country home, Stephen (Dirk Bogarde), an Oxford philosophy professor, hears a crash and runs outside to find two of his pupils trapped inside a smashed car. William (Michael York) is dead, and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard) is in shock, but uninjured. Stephen
remembers when he and the aristocratic William first met the Austrian Anna at school; in particular, he recalls a leisurely Sunday lunch spent at his own house. Charley (Stanley Baker), a brash c...
Released:
1967
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins