The Passionate Friends (1949) by David Lean

It's almost New Year. I hear fireworks already popping away in the distance. What I like to leave you with now is this little know gem of a movie with a truly terrific acting Claude Rains. The Passionate Friends is based a novel by H.G. Wells and it's also one of David Lean's earliest movies. At the end of the movie Rains's character has one terrific scene in which she tells his wife that he had been given "the love you'd give a dog, the kindness you'd show a beggar, and the loyalty of a bad servant" and then loses his temper. He quickly calms down and retracts what he said in genuine remorse, but she has already gone and ends up walking through a London Underground station literally in a trance. Standing on a platform with an incoming train, she dazedly contemplates the tracks. As the train approaches she draws dangerously close to the platform edge, but just as she is about to leap, someone catches her round the waist. It is her husband, who has her sought out and come after her almost immediately. He holds her tight as she shakes and the couple reconcile then and there on the platform [media=https://youtu.be/oZ8S86QxA1E]