The Happy Time

  • Comedy
  • Romance
10/30/1952
94
NR

"Eet ees magnifique". And it's all about the birds and the bees...and a lot of delightful people.

A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Aside from "Treasure Island" (1950) this might be my favourite film featuring the charming Bobby Driscoll. He's the teenage "Robert/Bibi" who is completely oblivious to the affections of his next door neighbour because he only has eyes for the new maid "Mignonette" (Linda Christian). His obsessiveness starts to affect his schoolwork, and when the lovelorn "Peggy" (Marlene Cameron) doctors a rather risqué copy of "Paris Match" and gets him into hot water, things get so serious as to require the intervention of his dad (Charles Boyer) and two uncles (Louis Jourdan and Kurt Kasznar). They question him about the naughty photos and respect his denial whilst also clocking really quite quickly just what is troubling their young charge. Boyer is al...

    December 8, 2024

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