Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
- infidelity
- farewell
- husband wife relationship
- narration
- marriage
- housewife
- duty
- black and white
- doctor
- love affair
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Celia Johnson
Laura Jesson
Trevor Howard
Dr. Alec Harvey
Stanley Holloway
Albert Godby
Joyce Carey
Myrtle Bagot
- Cyril Raymond — Fred Jesson
- Everley Gregg — Dolly Messiter
- Marjorie Mars — Mary Norton
- Margaret Barton — Tea Room Assistant Beryl Walters
- Wilfred Babbage — Policeman at War Memorial (uncredited)
- Alfie Bass — Waiter at the Royal (uncredited)
- Wallace Bosco — Doctor After Bobbie's Accident (uncredited)
- Sydney Bromley — Johnnie, the Second Soldier (uncredited)
- Noël Coward — Train Station Announcer (uncredited)
- Nuna Davey — Herminie Rolandson (uncredited)
- Valentine Dyall — Alec's Friend Stephen Lynn (uncredited)
- Directed
- David Lean
- Written
- Noël Coward
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 713 ratings
- Studio
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
