David Lean is another one of those directors that I don't know nearly enough about. I tend to focus on his epics, and forget that he made many smaller, more intimate films. Last night I watched his 1949 film The Passionate Friends, which starred Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, and Claude Rains. Ann Todd played a very Ann Todd-like role: a beautiful, intelligent woman who spreads unhappiness wherever she goes (I think I was engaged to her for six years, but that's another story). She was married to Lean at the time - or soon would be - and that must have been an interesting dynamic. She's married to the much older Claude Rains (who is very good) but having an affair with Trevor Howard. The ending is a little different than I would have thought, and it almost copied Anna Karenina (and it probably would have been better if had). Still, it was pretty solid.
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