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Blind Date(1959)
Status: Released
Date: 1959-08-01
60%
25 Votes
Time: 1h 35m
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies: 
Independent Artists
Sydney Box Productions
Movie: Blind Date
Top 10 Billed 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
Jack MacGowran
Postman
Redmond Phillips
Police doctor
Lee Montague
Sgt. Farrow
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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.
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1959-08-01
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6
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