---
title: 'The Passionate Friends (1949)'
type: 'film'
director: 'David Lean'
released: '1949-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 97
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-passionate-friends-1949'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041735/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Passionate Friends (1949)

1949 · 97 min · Drama · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

The Passionate Friends is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean and starring Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard. It was written by Eric Ambler, Stanley Haynes and Lean, based on The Passionate Friends: A Novel (1913) by H. G. Wells. It describes a love triangle in which a woman cannot give up her affair with another man. The film was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.

## Credits

- **Director:** [David Lean](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-lean)
- **Screenplay:** [David Lean](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-lean), [H. G. Wells](https://cinepixo.com/people/h-g-wells), [Eric Ambler](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-ambler)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Addinsell](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-addinsell)
- **Producer:** [Ronald Neame](https://cinepixo.com/people/ronald-neame)
- **Editor:** [Geoffrey Foot](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-foot)
- **Director of Photography:** [Guy Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/guy-green)

## Cast

- [Wilfrid Hyde-White](https://cinepixo.com/people/wilfrid-hyde-white)
- [Ann Todd](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-todd)
- [Trevor Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/trevor-howard)
- [Claude Rains](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-rains)

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