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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.
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.
A seemingly platonic encounter fueled by pent-up passion leads to an affair between Mary and Steven, and she must choose between the two men -- the husband who loves her and the now-married man...
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The Passionate Friends is a 1913 coming of age novel by H. G. Wells detailing the life and travels of a young man. It is notable as the first introduction of Wells's notion of an "open conspiracy" of individuals to achieve a world state.
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).
The Passionate Friends (1949) Mary Justin arrives in Switzerland in 1948 to meet her husband. By chance, staying in the hotel room next to theirs is her former love, Steven Stratton.
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.
