Fresh
Film's excellence comes mainly in the performances.
Variety Staff, Variety
This Happy Breed
A Sweeping Panorama of Living
1944 · 1h 51m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
David Lean
Overview
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
Director and cast
- David Lean Director
- Robert Newton as Frank Gibbons
- Celia Johnson as Ethel Gibbons
- Amy Veness as Mrs. Flint
- Alison Leggatt as Aunt Sylvia
- Stanley Holloway as Bob Mitchell
- John Mills as Billy Mitchell
- Kay Walsh as Queenie Gibbons
- Eileen Erskine as Vi Gibbons
- John Blythe as Reg Gibbons
- Guy Verney as Sam Leadbitter
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This Happy Breed is Noel Coward's proud and loving tribute to the unbreakable British backbone.
TIME Magazine
Fresh
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.
Time Out
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