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Brief Encounter
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CastCelia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey
Year released1946
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Laura, watching other people on the train, feels "as if they could read my secret thoughts." (0:33)
Laura, distraught and miserable over the apparent imminent end of her affair with Alec, says, "I want to die." (1:20)
When she hears the express train approaching Laura runs to the platform intent on jumping in front of it, but she stops just in time. (1:23)
References in The History Boys, and The Railway Man