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This Happy Breed
Directed by
David Lean
PG
1947
1h 51m
Comedy
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Drama
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7.3
100%
78%
7.1
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A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of World War I to the beginning of World War II.
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Cast of This Happy Breed
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 Gibbons
Eileen Erskine
Vi Gibbons
John Blythe
Reg Gibbons
Guy Verney
Sam Leadbitter
Betty Fleetwood
Phyllis Blake
Merle Tottenham
Edie
Mabel Etherington
Woman in Crowd
Jack May
Mourner
Laurence Olivier
Narrator (voice)
David Lean
Director / Screenplay
Ronald Neame
Screenplay / Associate Producer / Director Of Photography
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenplay
Noël Coward
Producer / Theatre Play
C.P. Norman
Art Direction
This Happy Breed Ratings & Reviews
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
A powerful piece that hammers its message home without any kind of overt propagandizing.
TIME Magazine
James Agee
This Happy Breed is Noel Coward's proud and loving tribute to the unbreakable British backbone.
Turner Classic Movies Online
Sean Axmaker
It's quite the study in domesticity and acceptance, and it even presents socialist activism and union strikes as some sort of idealistic fling...
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
This Happy Breed ranks with 1949's One Woman's Story and 1950's Madeleine as the most obscure title in David Lean's canon. That's a shame, because it's a wonderful motion picture.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
not a particularly deep film, but it gets the details of human interaction and growth just right, providing a moving portrait of one family's durability in the midst of massive historical upheaval
Variety
Variety Staff
Film's excellence comes mainly in the performances.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
If it doesn't bore you to death with its contrived melodramatics then maybe its decorative historical background might catch your interest.
TV Guide
This is an immensely charming movie, with many tears and many moments of warmth.
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