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The Passionate Friends is a British film of genre Drama directed by David Lean released in USA on 17 may 1949 with Ann Todd
The Passionate Friends (1949)
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Add to a movie listThe Passionate Friends is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean. The film is based on The Passionate Friends: A Novel, a 1913 story by H. G. Wells. It describes a love triangle in which a woman cannot give up her affair with another man. The film was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.
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The story is told through episodes of memories by the woman (Mary, played by Ann Todd) while on holiday in Switzerland waiting for her banker husband Howard (Claude Rains) to join her from his business. It has been nine years since they have been on holiday, but also nine years since she last talked to the man she is in love with (Steven, played by Trevor Howard), who unknowing to her has been booked into the adjoining room.Actors
Ann Todd
(Mary Justin)
Claude Rains
(Howard Justin)
Trevor Howard
(Prof. Steven Stratton)
Wilfrid Hyde-White
(Lawyer)
Betty Ann Davies
(Joan Layton)
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