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This Happy Breed (1944)
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Overview
Release Date:
12 April 1947 (USA) morePlot:
Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs... more | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)Plot Keywords:
Awards:
1 win moreUser Comments:
Fantastic, Mesmerising history lesson moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Robert Newton | ... | Frank Gibbons |
| Celia Johnson | ... | Ethel Gibbons |
| Amy Veness | ... | Mrs. Flint |
| Alison Leggatt | ... | Aunt Sylvia |
| Stanley Holloway | ... | Bob Mitchell |
 | John Mills | ... | Billy Mitchell |
| Kay Walsh | ... | Queenie |
| Eileen Erskine | ... | Vi |
| John Blythe | ... | Reg Gibbons |
| Guy Verney | ... | Sam Leadbitter |
| Betty Fleetwood | ... | Phyllis Blake |
| Merle Tottenham | ... | Edie |
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
Germany:105 min | USA:115 min | UK:114 minCountry:
UKLanguage:
EnglishColor:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Certification:
Portugal:M/12 | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) (1996) | USA:ApprovedMOVIEmeter: 
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Bob and Frank are talking in their opening scenes it appears that Frank's words have been changed since filming. moreQuotes:
Ethel Gibbons: There will always be wars as long as men are such fools as to want to go to them. moreFAQ
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This film by David Lean takes us on a journey from 1919 after the First World war towards into WW2. But focuses not on the fighting, but on the home front, and the effects of a changing world.
I love this films ability to take you along with the day to day routine of a large, close knit family. Youre there with their smiles and tears then then in an instant you feel the heartache of their tragedy.
Robert Newton has never been better - a truly mesmerising performance. Forget Long John Silver (although another very fine performance).
The rest of the cast are a brilliant complement to Robert Newton. John Mills is on top form in a cameo performance.
Did David Lean ever make a bad film?
The only down side to the film is you see how great the British Film Industry once was, and now its virtually gone.