This Happy Breed

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

This Happy Breed
Drama 1920s 1930s

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. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.

Direction David Lean

Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills · Kay Walsh · Amy Veness · Eileen Erskine

Soundtrack Muir Mathieson · Clifton Parker

Screenplay David Lean · Ronald Neame · Anthony Havelock-Allan · Noël Coward

Cinematography Ronald Neame

Original title This Happy Breed

6.9

639 votes (FilmAffinity)

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