Blind Date (U.S. title: Chance Meeting) is a 1959 British murder mystery film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, and Micheline Presle.

[4][5] Jan Van Rooyer, a young Dutch artist, working in a London private art gallery, cheerfully arrives at the large mews flat owned by Jacqueline Cousteau.

[2]: 133 The New York Times Eugene Archer found the film "absorbing", noting that "Joseph Losey proves himself a strikingly adept technician with an alert and caustic personal style.

"[10][11] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Some unusually pointed and intelligent dialogue exchanges, notably in the love scenes, an adroit dovetailing of flashbacks and direct action, give a routine thriller plot a certain edge and intensity.

"[15] “[T]he efforts of Losey and his collaborators to make the story credible give the film a richness, a multi-layered complexity, and thus a range of thematic, social and political resonance…”—Critic James Leahy in Senses of Cinema (2002) [16] Biographer Foster Hirsch reports that the film garnered “strong reviews in both England and America.” Subsequent to Chance Meeting (titled Blind Date in England) Losey’s reputation for creating “cult” movies emerged in Great Britain.

[17] Characterizing the film as “a thinking man’s thriller,” Hirsch adds: “The murder-mystery genre serves as a platform for Losey’s cynical statements about the British class system” as well as an indictment of “corruption and influence” in Scotland Yard.

[18] Film historian James Leahy in Senses of Cinema, declares: “As far as I’m concerned, Blind Date is the most underrated of Losey’s films…”[19] Barzman and Lampell were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.