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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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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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