The Passionate Friends (1949) ending with Claude Rains, Ann Todd
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2017
- The Passionate Friends has been almost entirely forgotten, yet it’s among Claude Rains’ best performances. On the surface, his character, Howard Justin, is a standard issue Rains part: powerful, unflappable man of the world brought low by a straying woman. But I doubt if Rains ever gave a more intensely emotional performance than he gives in this one. For much of the picture, Howard Justin could be a stand-in for Alexander Sebastian (“Notorious”), Alexander Hollenius (“Deception”) or Victor Grandison (“The Unsuspected”), but near the end of the picture, things change - and Rains cuts loose in an emotional torrent that always overwhelms me, no matter how often I see the last reel.
What a man. Despite all her shenanigans, he knew her safest and best place was with him, and he welcomed her back home.
It almost has an "Anna Karenina" ending. Anna should have been so lucky had Vronsky been as thoughtful.
Thank you for uploading the best scenes in this movie. I love CR. So great when his character pulls his wife away from jumping and comforts her.
Claude, you made me believe you loved this ice woman!
This is a wonderful epic about the power of forgivness. What is broken can be fixed if we open our hearts. Pride, hurt, his character was hurt, broken, torn apart...and she knew it. When we fall in love we risk being vulnerable. She, a much younger woman, can't bear the thought of having hurt the man she realizes she loves deeply. A good ending, a hopeful ending, both eith eyes and finally hearts opened. His "Shall we go home!" Is the sweetest voice of forgiveness...some times we all need to hear that.
I love this movie and I love this ending. We believe that it is a simple opposition of “marriage of convenience” vs. romantic passion. Logically, love passion must win. But it fails. And passionate love springs up where we least expected it: in the heart of the husband.
It's a film by the great David Lean (who worked again with Claude Rains on "Lawrence of Arabia"), Ann Todd was Lean's wife at the time.
I'd go home with Claude Rains any day of the week!
Claude Rains steals the show, again, even with Todd and Howard shining so brightly-what an elegant classic!
I watch this over and over. The last scene. Subtle and real. Lean spared us the movie fireworks and created this powerful ending.
Claude Rains is brilliant.
I want to be Mary. What a man. Once again, thank you profusely
A truly great movie. I've watched it many times.The accents, the story and dialogue are so dated and unrealistic - but it's these things that draw me to it. Romanticism and melodrama at its best!
Thank you! Love CR. So consistently good.
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Modern Day Anna Karenina! Would love for a contemporary adaptation of that novel to end this way!
Claude what a beautiful mannn
Great acting
I'm not crying...
All the movies I have seen of him he never kissed the woman passionately. Hmmmm, perhaps he had it written in his contract! I wish I could have kissed him back then, passionately! Indeed!