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Brief encounter [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, c2000.

English drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Criterion collection 76

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Noel Coward's Brief encounter [videorecording (DVD)]

David Lean's Brief encounter [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (87 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on Noël Coward's play "Still life".

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1945.

Special features: Luminous digital transfer, with restored image and sound ; audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder ; restoration demonstration ; original theatrical trailer.

At head of title: Noel Coward's.

Includes English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Directed by David Lean ; produced by Noel Coward.

Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard with Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey and Cyril Raymond ; Rachmaninoff piano concerto no. 2 played by Eileen Joyce with the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Muir Mathieson

"Adapting Noel Coward's play Still Life, legendary filmmaker David Lean deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of illicit romance during 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."--Container.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Still life.

Lean, David, 1908-1991.

Johnson, Celia, 1908-1982.

Howard, Trevor, 1916-1988.

Holloway, Stanley.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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