Category: Romance
All Genres: Romance, Drama
Release Year: 1945
Country: UK
Runtime: 86
Rating: 2.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: David Lean
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

A story of the most precious moments in womans life!

Writing by: Noel Coward - (play "Still Life") uncredited
Anthony Havelock-Allan - uncredited
David Lean - uncredited
Ronald Neame - uncredited

Produced by: Noel Coward - producer
Anthony Havelock-Allan - producer (uncredited)
Ronald Neame - producer (uncredited)

Cast: Celia Johnson - Laura Jesson
Trevor Howard - Dr. Alec Harvey
Stanley Holloway - Albert Godby
Joyce Carey - Myrtle Bagot
Cyril Raymond - Fred Jesson
Everley Gregg - Dolly Messiter
Marjorie Mars - Mary Norton
Margaret Barton - Beryl Walters, Tea Room Assistant
Wilfred Babbage - Policeman at War Memorial (uncredited)
Alfie Bass - Waiter at the Royal (uncredited)
Wallace Bosco - Doctor at Bobbies Accident (uncredited)

Music: Danny Elfman
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Plot Outline: Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
Plot: On a cafe at a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although they are already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday on the small cafe, although they know that their love is impossible.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
There is a credit in Rising Sun thanking "The MIT Leg Lab" and "Marc Raibert and his Running Team." This refers to a short scene where the two detectives go out to a fancy-looking research lab (really a water treatment plant; also used as the set for Starfleet Academy on the TV series "Star Trek - The Next Generation). In the background of some of the shots there are two legged robots: one hopping in a circle in a tea-house; the other bouncing up a garden path.    These robots are actually academic research projects from the MIT AI Labs Legged Locomotion Lab. They really do hop about and maintain their balance. Power comes from off-board hydraulic pumps (hence the guy in the background (me!) pulling hoses for the robot), and body attitude is sensed with gyroscopes. A human with a joystick tells the robot what direction to go, and the control algorithms (which are the real subject of Leg Lab research) maintain speed, direction, and balance.    However, the robots arent designed for special effects. Theyre always being modified, and they tend to break down frequently. This made shooting in the hot july sun of the San Fernando Valley a real nightmare, with transputers crashing in the heat, stuck gyros, and hydraulic leaks.    Three grad students and a professor worked steadily for about a month before Hollywood, and then five days on the set and on location to get the robots in about 15 seconds of film. The credits are: Marc Raibert (our prof), and Charles Francois, Rob Playter and Lee Campbell (me) who are students. We three students appear in the film in white lab coats acting like Robot Scientists!!

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Laura runs through a downpour but is dry when she walks into the refreshment room.

Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Carnforth station was chosen partly because it was so far from the South East of England that it would receive sufficient warning of an air-raid attack that there would be time to turn out the filming lights to comply with wartime blackout restrictions.
• On initial release, the film was banned by the strict censorship board in Ireland on the grounds that it portrayed an adulterer in a sympathetic light.
• The first choice for the Doctor Alec Harvey had been Roger Livesey, but when David Lean and Anthony Havelock-Allan saw Trevor Howard, in a rough cut of The Way to the Stars (1945) they decided to offer the part to Trevor Howard, who at that time was an unknown actor, who had been invalided out of the army.

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