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This black and white 1945 David Lean film is based on a play by Noel Coward and tells the tale of a doctor and a housewife, both married with children, who meet by chance in a British railway station and who over time fall in love. This theme has been visited again and again ("Falling in Love", "The Bridges of Madison County", etc.) and I think the appeal is that everyone likes lovers and also the moral dilemna that these situations put them (us by extension) in. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, both of whom aquit themselves well in a genteel, upper class English sort of way. The music used is bt Rachmaninov. The beautifully restored Criterion DVD also fatures on screen commentary and the theatrical trailer.
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will indulge in the same sort of sordid behavior--and w/in 3 or 4 years of getting married.
I recently saw it on tv and was struck by how hateful the woman who interrupted them at the station was made to appear.
There is a similar character (played by Deborah Monk) in "The Bridges of Madison County" who arrives on Clint's last day and proceeds to non-stop talk Meryl to utter boredom.
Rico,Who does the "on-screen commentary?"
I have an old but decent vhs of this film...I love "train movies," from the 1940's, and BE is somewhat centered around a train station.
Somewhat unusual casting of Howard in a romantic leading role...very nice film.
Thanks,
Gary
It is by film historian Bruce Eder.
One of the very first film of David Lean, who works as a cutter before.
Very melo- dramatic, the rest you said it.
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