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English drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.
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English drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.
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Brief
encounter
[videorecording (DVD)].
Criterion Collection, c2000.
Call #:
DVD BRI
Subjects
English drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.
Series
Criterion collection 76
Video Difference legacy collection.
ISBN:
0780023420
Alternate title:
Noel Coward'
s
Brief
encounter
[videorecording (DVD)]
David
Lean
's
Brief
encounter
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.
Notes:
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
.
Home use only.
Includes English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Production:
Directed by
David
Lean
; produced by Noel Coward.
Performers:
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
Summary:
"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.
Genre:
Romance films.
Melodrama and tearjerker films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Still life.
Lean
,
David
, 1908-1991.
Johnson, Celia, 1908-1982.
Howard, Trevor, 1916-1988.
Holloway, Stanley.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Holds:
0
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Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Bedford Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD BRI
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD BRI
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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