Hep young Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyer (onetime Hitler Youth deserter Hardy Kruger) bops his way into an unlocked apartment, only to find himself a murder suspect. Thus begins a fascinating and highly interior whodunit, laid out in flashbacks and flash-forwards, with shock cuts between. Losey's preoccupation with physical space and his eye for fine art are sharply illustrated here, as the murder case unfolds in a shadowy apartment and love blossoms in a blazingly sunlit studio. Stanley Baker makes his first Losey appearance as the sniffling police detective Morgan, bent on trapping Van Rooyer, and Micheline Presle is an arch delight as Jacqueline Cousteau, Van Rooyer's lover, around whom the mystery revolves. Penned with blacklisted screenwriters Ben Barzman (his fourth Losey collaboration) and Millard Lampell, Blind Date was famously dumped by Paramount in the United States after Variety ran the screaming headline “Alleged REDS, in partnership with EX-NAZI sell BLIND DATE to Paramount,” but the film found major success in Europe.