Brief Encounter (1974 film) Brief Encounter (1974 film) Brief Encounter is a 1974 British-Italian television film starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren, adapted from the play "Still Life" by Noël Coward. The plot of the film is about two strangers, both married to others, who meet in a railway station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair. The material was previously the basis for the David Lean film "Brief Encounter" (1945). Burton was cast at the last moment, after Robert Shaw dropped out. The film had its premiere on U.S. television on 12 November 1974 as part of the "Hallmark Hall of
Red Peppers by Anthony Pelissier, Coward adapted "Ways and Means", "Red Peppers" and "Fumed Oak" (the film was called "Tonight at 8:30" in the US) In addition to the 1991 BBC series, television adaptations of "Red Peppers" were released in 1937, 1938, 1958 and 1969. In 1954, Otto Preminger directed a "Producers' Showcase" television production of "Shadow Play", "Still Life" and "Red Peppers" (featuring Martyn Green and Ginger Rogers). Red Peppers Red Peppers is a short comic play by Noël Coward, one of the ten plays that make up "", a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. In the introduction