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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.
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- Drama, Romance
- David Lean
- 1949-01-26
Jul 3, 2008 · Passionate Friends, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Restrictions Imposed Near soliloquy by Claude Rains as banker Howard, alarmed because his wife and her supposedly platonic friend left their tickets for the theater behind, Betty Ann Davies his assistant, outwardly calm but with intense double-entendre in the language, from H.G. Wells’ novel and Eric Ambler’s script, in director David Lean ...
- David Lean
- Ann Todd
The Passionate Friends (1949) The Passionate Friends (1949) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis In this drama, based on the H.G. Wells novel, Mary (Ann Todd) longs for Steven (Trevor Howard), a ...
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- Ann Todd
- David Lean
- Cineguild
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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 To...
- 90 min
- 1864
- Hollywood Classic Movies
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In postwar London, Mary Justin (Ann Todd) runs into university lecturer Professor Steve Stratton (Trevor Howard), the true love of her life from when they were young. She is now married to a Treasury financier having opted for a safe, secure and affectionate relationship, but the meeting rekindles the past for a while.