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Brief Encounters (film)
1968
- 1968 · Drama · 1h 35m
Brief Encounter: Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
- David Lean
- 276
- 3 min
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life . Starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, and Joyce Carey, the film follows a passionate extramarital relationship in England shortly before World War II.
- $1 million or $1.4 million
- Still Life, 1936 play, by Noël Coward
- Noël Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
Synopsis. Brief Encounter is a classic romantic drama set in 1945 during WWII in and around the fictional Milford railway station. A married woman, with children, Laura (Celia Johnson), meets a stranger, a doctor (Trevor Howard) named Alec in the station's waiting/tea room, who kindly removes a piece of grit from her eye then leaves to catch ...
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Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor...
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- Celia Johnson
- David Lean
- Romance, Drama
With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff score, and pair of remarkable performances (Johnson was nominated for an Oscar), this film, directed by David Lean and based on Noël Coward’s play Still Life deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance, and has influenced many a cinematic brief ...
Nov 5, 2015 · Thu 5 Nov 2015 16.45 EST. Brief Encounter: is it still relevant at 70? Read more. Brief Encounter is back in cinemas again, this time for the 70th anniversary, and to paraphrase what Ken...