This Happy Breed (1944)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 0
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Movie Info
Jun 1, 1944 Wide
Cast
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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 -
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John Blythe
Reg -
Merle Tottenham
Edie -
Guy Verney
Sam Ledbetter -
Laurence Olivier
Narrator
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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (0) | DVD (3)
This Happy Breed is Noel Coward's proud and loving tribute to the unbreakable British backbone.
Top CriticFilm's excellence comes mainly in the performances.
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.
Top CriticWhile not exacty up to contemporary standards of social realism this domestic saga was ground-breaking in its day and still captivates.
It's quite the study in domesticity and acceptance, and it even presents socialist activism and union strikes as some sort of idealistic fling...
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.
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
If it doesn't bore you to death with its contrived melodramatics then maybe its decorative historical background might catch your interest.
This is an immensely charming movie, with many tears and many moments of warmth.
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.
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- This Happy Breed (1944) (DE)
- This Happy Breed (1944) (UK)
