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The Passionate Friends is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean and starring Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard. The film is based on The Passionate Friends: A Novel (1913) by H. G. Wells. It describes a love triangle in which a woman cannot give up her affair with another man.
The Passionate Friends: Directed by David Lean. With Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard, Betty Ann Davies. A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago.
- (3K)
- Drama, Romance
- David Lean
- 1949-01-26
A departure from H.G. Wells' more famous science fiction novels, The Passionate Friends is a tale of romance and infidelity with Trevor Howard playing a variation on the character that brought him so much attention and acclaim in Lean's earlier drama, Brief Encounter (1945).
- David Lean
- Ann Todd
It is a film of indecision, of romance vs pragmatism, disguised as a loving friend and a cold husband. She wants love and security, even if she can't have both. She wants to live her own life, independent of anyone else, but also wants to love and share that with someone.
- (4K)
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- David Lean
The Passionate Friends. 1949 · 1 hr 31 min. TV-PG. Drama · Romance. Based on an H.G. Wells novel, a married woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago and begins an affair with him in the Alps. Subtitles: English. Starring: Ann Todd Claude Rains Trevor Howard Betty Ann Davies Isabel Dean. Directed by: David Lean.
- David Lean
- 91 min
- January 1, 1949
Summaries. A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago. The Passionate Friends were in love when young, but separated, and she married an older man. Then Mary Justin (Ann Todd) meets Steven Stratton (Trevor Howard) again and they have one last fling together in the Alps. — David Wark <dwark@atge.automail.com>
Directed by David Lean • 1949 • United Kingdom. Starring Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains. Four years after David Lean crafted what may be the screen’s most piercing examination of extramarital romance with BRIEF ENCOUNTER, he returned to a similar subject in this exquisite tale of a woman torn between the stability of marriage and ...
