United Kingdom
1945
86 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
English
76
From Noël Coward’s play Still Life, legendary filmmaker David Lean deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance in the dour, gray Britain of 1945. From a chance meeting on a train platform, a middle-aged married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a quietly passionate, ultimately doomed love affair, set to a swirling Rachmaninoff score.
| Laura Jesson | Celia Johnson |
| Dr. Alec Harvey | Trevor Howard |
| Albert Godby | Stanley Holloway |
| Myrtle Bagot | Joyce Carey |
| Fred Jesson | Cyril Raymond |
| Director | David Lean |
| Producer | Noël Coward |
| Screenplay | David Lean, Noël Coward and Anthony Havelock-Allan |
| Based on a play by | Noël Coward |
| Editing | Jack Harris |
| Cinematography | Robert Krasker |
| Art director | L.P. Williams |
| Music director | Muir Mathieson |
| Piano soloist | Eileen Joyce |
Brief Encounter, that eternal model of restraint, is coming out of its shell in a play opening this week in New York. A touring production of the Cornwall-based company Kneehigh Theatre, this new-millennial Brief Encounter . . .
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 . . .
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