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.

• DirectorDavid Lean
• Release24 November 1945
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 26m
• Budget$1,200,000
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  7.7
  676 reviews
• Productions

  Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation