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Mood:
- BittersweetContemplativeEmotionalSentimentalSincereTouching
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Plot:
- Crumbling MarriageFriendshipImpossible LoveInfidelityLove TriangleLovers ReunitedRoad Not TakenDishonesty more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- 30s
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Place:
- EuropeSwitzerland
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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The Passionate Friends, 1949
English
UK
Profile of The Passionate Friends
The Passionate Friends can be described as bittersweet, emotional, and contemplative. The plot revolves around a road not taken, impossible love, and lovers reunited. The main genres are drama and romance. In approach, The Passionate Friends is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is located in Switzerland. The Passionate Friends takes place in the 1930s. Visually, it is black and white. It is based on a book. The Passionate Friends is well suited for a date night.
Summary of The Passionate Friends
Based on 1913 H.G. Wells novel, David Lean's film tells the story Mary Justin (Ann Todd, who was Lean's third wife) an unhappily married woman living in the Swiss Alps. When she encounters Steven Stratton (Trevor Howard), a man with whom she had an affair before but whose marriage proposal she refused due to his social standing, the flame between them is rekindled. Suddenly, she finds herself torn between the convenience and financial comfort of her marriage and the passion of her old flame.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 17 May 1949 |
| Runtime: | 86 min |
Cast and Crew
as Mary Justin
as Howard Justin
as Prof. Steven Stratton
as Pat Stratton
