Director: David Lean
Writer: Based on the play “Still Life†by Noel Coward
Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, and Joyce Carey.
Run time: 86 minutes (black and white)
Rating: None
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars, won Grand Prize at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival
DVD features: Audio commentary from film historian Bruce Eder, original trailer (which I found quite amusing).
Plot: Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is a lonely housewife who makes weekly trips to town every Thursday. During these trips Laura shops and usually catches a matinee at the local theater before taking the train home. One particular Thursday, Laura is standing by the train tracks and an express train speeds by causing dirt to fly into her eye. Laura walks into the train station’s cafà © to ask for some water to help clean her eye. Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) hears of Laura’s distress and offers to help thus marks the beginning of an ill-fated love affair. Continue reading Chick Flick from the Past: ‘Brief Encounter’ (1945)