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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
The Passionate Friends was Lean's first movie to be set outside England - the story takes place in Switzerland - and was marketed as a "woman's picture" in the U.S under the title One Woman's Story. It was made with Lean's usual craftsmanship and effectively employed the use of flashbacks for dramatic effect.
- David Lean
- Ann Todd
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.
The Passionate Friends. Four years after David Lean crafted what may be the screen’s most piercing examination of extramarital romance with BRIEF ENCOUNTER, he returned to a similar subject in this exquisite tale of a woman torn between the stability of marriage and the thrill of an affair.
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.
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Watch Now. The Passionate Friends (1949) NR 05/17/1949 (US) Drama , Romance 1h 30m. User. Score. Play Trailer. Their affair took on a life of its own. Overview. A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband. David Lean. Director. H.G. Wells. Novel. Eric Ambler. Screenplay.
