Plot
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Cast
as Laura Jesson
as Dr. Alec Harvey
as Albert Godby
as Myrtle Bagot
as Fred Jesson
as Dolly Messiter
as Mary Norton
as Tea Room Assistant Beryl Walters
as Policeman at War Memorial (uncredited)
as Waiter at the Royal (uncredited)
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Reviews
Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life" this is a super adaptation from David Lean as Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard meet in a railway station café and 90 minutes later we have been on a roller-coaster of emotions, all delicately and subtly discussed, as these two eminently middle class English people challenge their long established "civilised" values and conventions of behaviour. It's style i…