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Directed by | David Lean |
Written by | Eric Ambler Stanley Haynes David Lean H. G. Wells |
Based on | The Passionate Friends by H.G. Wells |
Produced by | Ronald Neame |
Starring | Ann Todd Claude Rains Trevor Howard |
Cinematography | Guy Green |
Edited by | Geoffrey Foot |
Music by | Richard Addinsell |
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Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £346,800[1] |
Box office | £219,400[2] |
The Passionate Friends is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean and starring Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard. The film is based on The Passionate Friends: A Novel (1913) 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.[3]