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Brief Encounter. 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
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
- 3 min
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Nov 5, 2015 · Celia Johnson is Laura, a married woman who falls in love with Alec, the idealistic married doctor, when he gallantly removes a piece of grit from her eye at a railway station. (A brilliantly ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter (1945), directed by David Lean. Brief Encounter, British film drama, released in 1945, that pivots on the subject of forbidden love, as set against the strictures of suburban British life. The film, based on Noël Coward ’s play Still Life, was one of director David Lean ’s first great ...
- Lee Pfeiffer
Eileen Joyce. Played by. with the National Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by. Muir Mathieson. The filmmaker’s heartbreaking 1945 tale of forbidden love remains one of the screen’s all-time most romantic films. Brief Encounter was the fourth and final film that David Lean made in association with Noël Coward.
- Laura Jesson
Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life" this is a super adaptation from David Lean as Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard meet in a railway station café and 90 minutes later we have been on a roller-coaster of emotions, all delicately and subtly discussed, as these two eminently middle class English people challenge their long established "civilised" values and conventions of behaviour.
Nov 24, 2020 · Celebrating 75 Years Since the Release of ‘Brief Encounter’. November 24, 2020 In Headlines from History by Rose Staveley-Wadham. 75 years ago, on the 26 November 1945, Noël Coward’s enduring masterpiece Brief Encounter was released to cinema audiences. A classic of post-war cinema, Brief Encounter came to symbolise the British restraint ...
