Celia Johnson
Laura Jesson
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- Trevor HowardDr Alec Harvey
- Stanley HollowayAlbert Godby
- Cyril RaymondFred Jesson
- Joyce CareyMyrtle Bagot
- Everley GreggDolly Messiter
- Marjorie MarsMary Norton
Margaret BartonBeryl Walters, Tea Room Assistant- Dennis HarkinStanley, Beryl's Man (uncredited)
- Alfie BassWaiter at the Royal
Valentine DyallStephen Lynn, Alec's `Friend' (uncredited)- Nuna DaveyHerminie Rolandson, Mary's Cousin (uncredited)
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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy 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.
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.
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey.
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Brief Encounter (1945) was the film that first established David Lean as one of the world's great directors, with a sense of character and romantic fatalism that would be found in such later hits as Great Expectations (1946), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).
David Lean. Director. Noël Coward. Screenplay. Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey.
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Brief Encounter was the fourth and final film that David Lean made in association with Noël Coward. Derived from Still Life, a one-act play which Coward included in the portmanteau Tonight 8:30, the story tells of a suburban housewife, Laura Jesson, …
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film directed by David Lean about British suburban life, centering on Laura, a married woman with children whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a stranger, Alec.
