The Passionate Friends

1949

Action / Drama / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 75% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 3661 3.7K

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Plot summary

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.

Director

David Lean Photo
David Lean

Top cast

Lisa Daniely Photo
Lisa Daniely as Cinema Usherette
Wilfrid Hyde-White Photo
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Lawyer
Ann Todd Photo
Ann Todd as Mary Justin
Charles Lloyd Pack Photo
Charles Lloyd Pack as Man Drinking with Stratton
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835.83 MB
1280*930
English 2.0
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Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 30 min
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1.51 GB
1486*1080
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Ann Todd puts in quite a strong performance

Ann Todd puts in quite a strong performance in this quite sensitively presented drama as "Mary", a lady contentedly if not ecstatically married to financier "Howard" (Claude Rains). One afternoon she bumps into "Prof. Stratton" (Trevor Howard) and that rekindles memories of a pre-war romance. When her husband has to go to Switzerland on business, she accompanies him and yes, you've guessed, she encounters "Stratton" again - though this time her husband spots her distress when they part and she is rumbled. This is another solid effort from David Lean that allows the performances to develop at their own pace; the characters each have flaws and strengths and his adaptation of this lesser known HG Wells story is quite a poignant and characterful look at how the choices we make evolve and change over time. The title is a bit misleading - for passion is really the one thing that is truly absent throughout, but Rains and Howard - two distinctively different style of actors work well as the foils to Todd's uncertain and needy "Mary" who is probably far more excited by the idea of love rather than actually experiencing or enjoying it. I could have done without her narration - it distracted me from an otherwise superior drama that is certainly a delight to watch, if not necessarily one with characters to admire.
Reviewed by jem132 8 / 10

Claude Rains' love is of the romantic kind........

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