I didn't think about Laura so much as I watched this but rather the Profumo-Christine Keeler affair that so fascinated English society in the early sixties. Losey did a fairly entertaining film around a manipulating society woman and a hapless young artist. The performances by Micheline Presle and Stanley Baker are expert; only Hardy Kruger disappoints with some unfortunate mugging. It's a shame they couldn't have had Horst Bucholz for that part.
The sets were done by the splendid Edward Carrick, son of Gordon Craig. The décor of the dead woman's flat arouses the scorn of proletarian Baker, it's so exotic and you really feel you're in Losey territory.
Review of Chance Meeting
