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This Happy Breed (1944)

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Release Date: Jun 1, 1944 Wide

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Movie Info

Unrated, 1 hr. 55 min.

Drama, Classics

Directed By: David Lean

Written By: David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame

In Theaters: Jun 1, 1944 Wide

Cast

Robert Newton
Frank Gibbons
Celia Johnson
Ethel Gibbons
John Mills
Billy Mitchell
Kay Walsh
Queenie Gibbons
Stanley Holloway
Bob Mitchell
Amy Veness
Mrs. Flint
Alison Leggatt
Aunt Sylvia
Eileen Erskine
Vi
John Blythe
Reg
Merle Tottenham
Edie
Guy Verney
Sam Ledbetter
Laurence Olivier
Narrator

Critic Reviews for This Happy Breed

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If it doesn't bore you to death with its contrived melodramatics then maybe its decorative historical background might catch your interest.

March 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This is an immensely charming movie, with many tears and many moments of warmth.

November 6, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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A toff propagandist's England, of course. But once you've got over its peculiar patrician tones and bitty structure, there's much to enjoy.

November 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Film4

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Though Lean and Coward are less happy here than in the brittle, refined atmosphere of Brief Encounter, their adventurous excursion into suburban Clapham remains endlessly fascinating.

November 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out

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The film is really about the evolution of a country between times of war, set against a families own personal ups and downs. The most dramatic events happen off screen. All deaths happen either off screen and many between different time periods, as do marriages and other "main" events other films would exploit. It

June 6, 2011

Luke Baldock

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agreat film and story

August 29, 2011

Graham Stuart Charles

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