On this very stiff-upper-lip episode, Daniel and Corky make a date to review David Lean’s masterful romance Brief Encounter. A seemingly simple yet remarkably complex story of an illicit affair elevated by Lean’s cinematic mastery, Brief Encounter set a standard that few tragic romances have ever matched. But did the film ignite cinematic Flames of Passion for your hosts?
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #211 [tied]
World premiere: Nov. 26, 1945 (London)
IMDB synopsis: “Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.”
Original theatrical trailer for Brief Encounter
The Night of the Hunter (1955; Dir.: Charles Laughton)
IMDB synopsis: “A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he’d stolen in a robbery.”
Our review of The Night of the Hunter comes out Tuesday, March 31!
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