Editing Brief Encounter (section)

===Box office===
According to trade papers, ''Brief Encounter'' was a "notable box-office attraction" and was the 21st most popular film at the British box office in 1946.<ref>{{cite book |last=Murphy |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&q=hungry%20hill%20film%20box%20office&pg=PA209 |title=Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939–48 |date=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-41502-982-7 |location=London, UK |page=209}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=15 January 1947 |title=Hollywood Sneaks in 15 Films on '25 Best' List of Arty Britain |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=2}}</ref> ''Kinematograph Weekly'' reported that the biggest box office success in Britain that year was ''[[The Wicked Lady]]'', with other major hits including ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's|The Bells of St Mary's]]'', ''[[Piccadilly Incident]]'', ''[[Road to Utopia]]'', ''[[Tomorrow Is Forever]]'', ''Brief Encounter'', ''[[Wonder Man (film)|Wonder Man]]'', ''[[Anchors Aweigh (film)|Anchors Aweigh]]'', ''[[Kitty (1945 film)|Kitty]]'', ''[[The Captive Heart]]'', ''[[The Corn Is Green]]'', ''[[The Spanish Main]]'', ''[[Leave Her to Heaven]]'', ''[[Gilda (film)|Gilda]]'', ''[[Caravan (1946 film)|Caravan]]'', ''[[Mildred Pierce (film)|Mildred Pierce]]'', ''[[The Blue Dahlia]]'', ''[[The Years Between (film)|The Years Between]]'', ''[[O.S.S. (film)|O.S.S.]]'', ''[[Spellbound (1945 film)|Spellbound]]'', ''[[Courage of Lassie]]'', ''[[My Reputation]]'', ''[[London Town (1946 film)|London Town]]'', ''[[Caesar and Cleopatra (film)|Caesar and Cleopatra]]'', ''[[Meet the Navy (film)|Meet the Navy]]'', ''[[Men of Two Worlds]]'', ''[[Theirs Is the Glory]]'', ''[[The Overlanders (film)|The Overlanders]]'', and ''[[Bedelia (film)|Bedelia]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lant |first=Antonia |title=Blackout: Reinventing Women for Wartime British Cinema |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-69100-828-8 |location=Princeton, NJ |page=232}}</ref>