Brief Encounter ( part 2 )

Brief Encounter is a classic romantic drama set in 1945 during WWII in and around the fictional Milford railway station. A married woman, with children, Laura (Celia Johnson), meets a stranger, a doctor (Trevor Howard) named Alec in the station's waiting/tea room, who kindly removes a piece of grit from her eye then leaves to catch his train. During her following shopping trips to Milford, Laura bumps into Alec and a friendship begins to develop. Soon the meetings become a fixed arrangement.

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[slignog]

My birthday's in June and there are no pantomimes in June.

[unclemort1960]

there`s a great Englishness about this film i mean if it was french they would have been making love on the luggage racks

[Stockmuncha]

The girl playing the daughter looks at the camera briefly

[railwayman87]

Im sorry but if they were my kids they would have had to have had a slap!

[sircharles2012]

"I like the smell of a chemist better than any other shop"- What a very English thing to say

[MonicaChilton]

P.S. Yes "Brief Encounter" is an expansion of the story of the main couple in his earlier play, "Still Life," but the film and the play are different animals.

[MonicaChilton]

Part 3 (of 3): That, and what did Cyril Raymond think of hearing that music in the final cut of the pic Was it like an old friend, or was it, "For heaven's sakes, not the bloody Rach 2 again -- I had to listen to Massey plunk that out for 138 performances!"

[MonicaChilton]

Part 2 (of 3): So I wonder where and from whom that thought came in for Noel Coward, and how he might have thought the stories were connected -- e.g., is he arguing against Winter's premise that coup de foudre must be honoured/respectability be damned?

[MonicaChilton]

@ jdollinter: I wondered abt that too once I read that Johnson was a crossword fanatic.

But the $64,000 question is what made Noel insist on having the music in the picture be almost exclusively the Rach 2? Back in '38 his friend Raymond Massey directed and starred in Keith Winter's "The Shining Hour" -- in which, incidentally, Cyril Raymond also played the cuckolded husband. The Rach 2 was featured as a leitmotiv for the romance between Massey's and Gladys Cooper's characters.

So I wonder w

[unclemort1960]

@JUGAopet1 i`ve no idea what you mean by that comment

[unclemort1960]

@JUGAopet1 i`ve no idea what you mean by that comment

[JUGAopet1]

@unclemort1960 O Yeahh, more hypocrisy less LOVE & SEX, there is no nothing fookin' great that way. No hard feelings:)