Blind Date

Blind Date

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Release Date

8/1/1959

Runtime

95 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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A British noir thriller where a painter becomes the prime suspect in a murder he didn't commit, only to discover the case is far murkier than it seems when powerful people's reputations become more important than truth. The investigation spirals into dark moral compromises and institutional corruption.

Mood

ParanoidTenseUnsettling

Themes

BetrayalJusticeCorruptionIdentity

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrast

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violence

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