Full screen (1.37:1).
Based on the play Still Life by Noel Coward. Adapted by David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan (all uncredited).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1945.
Special features: Audio commentary from 2000 by film historian Bruce Eder; Interview from 2012 with Noel Coward scholar Barry Day; A Profile of Brief Encounter, a short documentary from 2000 on the making of the film; David Lean: A Self Portrait, a 1971 television documentary on Lean's career; Trailer. Insert includes an essay "Riskiest thing I ever did : notes on a Brief Encounter" by film critic Kevin Brownlow.
Director of photography, Robert Krasker ; film editor, Jack Harris ; music director, Muir Mathieson, conducting the National Symphony Orchestra ; piano soloist, Eileen Joyce.
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everly Gregg, Marjorie Mars, Margaret Barton, Valentine Dyall.
DVD, NTSC region 1, full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
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