I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Good idea lost in the noise

Admirable film.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Mr.S.Baker as a resentful and bloody - minded Detective represents the old time coppers who moved through the ranks on merit. No University Entrant he,fast - tracked for promotion to the highest command. Welsh working - class,veteran of a hundred pub fights,"hard" stops and years of listening to weaselly criminals deny everything until a quick slap brings them to their senses,he is ill - equipped to take on Establishment figures determined to muddy the waters in a murder investigation.Nowadays we would expect no less but in 1959 it was still a bit of a revelation that our betters should conspire to protect their own at the expense of some prole who would never amount to anything,wasn't a Mason and didn't belong to the right clubs. Mr H.Kruger -who had a brief but glorious career in British pictures as a "Good German" despite his Nazi credentials - plays a Dutch artist who is the first and initially only suspect in the murder of his mistress(Miss M.Presle) but as Mr Baker digs around it becomes apparent that he is being denied access to any other line of enquiry. The Establishment,the exemplars of privilege,power and corruption are closing ranks to prevent him getting at the truth. He is cajoled,he is threatened,but he is grimly determined to get to the truth. Seen on the other side of the fence in Losey's later,"The Criminal",Mr Baker has anger and energy to spare and a clear idea of who's side he is on. "Blind Date" is heart on sleeve time for the director and his leading man. Sadly Mister Losey's efforts to reveal upper - class malfeasance were met with political indifference and nearly sixty years later the police are just as spavined by politicians as they were then. The only difference is you've got to have a degree,apparently.Which is nice.

For French star Micheline Presle this movie must have emitted the faint aroma of deja vu; twelve years before she had starred in a French classic Le Diable au corps (Devil In The Flesh) in which she was the love object of a much younger man, as is the case here, but there the comparison ends. Le Diable au corps reeked Class, from the writers, Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, through the director, Claude Autant-Lara, to Presle's co-star, Gerard Philipe; match that with their equivalents here and it's not even funny, we're talking Bush League and/or Second Eleven depending on whether you take your metaphors from baseball or cricket. I suppose the likes of Stanley Baker, Hardy Kruger, Gordon Jackson etc, do their best but alas, their best is light years away from the best of Aurenche, Autant-Lara and Philipe. One to see only for Presle, a class act in whatever language.

At first sight ,"Blind date" recalls some Agatha Christie play.Only three characters are really important and they all have. a different nationality:Baker is English,Krüger is German (Dutch in the movie!) and Micheline Presles is French.People who know Preminger's "Laura" cannot help but be struck by the way Presles's character is used.But the essentials are somewhere else.Losey had always been fascinated by the social status,particularly the upper classes' decay:to name but three ,"the servant" ,"the gypsy and the gentleman" and "the go-between" were blatant examples.Here prole Kruger would be an ideal culprit,he who only owns one suit,thus a good way of avoiding scandal.Presles and her husband are the posh people at the top,but they are about to fall in their mire.That said,Losey's directing is a bit static,and looks like some filmed stage production.The jaunty first and last pictures seem irrelevant.

The plot is pretty conventional Scotland Yard potboiler; Hardy Kruger suspected of a murder he didn't commit but the evidence looks bad. But the surprise of the film is a brilliant performance by Stanley Baker as the Police Inspector Morgan doing the investigation. Baker grew up in Wales near the home of the more famous Richard Burton, but he was every bit as good as an actor. His performance is tightly wound, with shafts of anger about the special treatment he is asked to give an upper class alternative suspect. Very different from the laid-back aristocrats that many films imagine populate the British police. It's a bit stagey and you won't find any of the car chases which litter so many police films. But the supporting cast are all good and Baker is a joy to watch.