This Happy Breed

  • Drama
5/28/1944
111
PG

A Sweeping Panorama of Living

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.

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$900,000

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  • Geronimo1967

    This gently entertaining film follows the trials and tribulations of the "Gibbons" family - mum, "Ethel" (Celia Johnson), dad "Frank" (Robert Newton), daughters "Queenie" (Kay Walsh), "Vi" (Eileen Erskine) and their son "Reg" (John Blythe) alongside her mother "Mrs. Flint" (Amy Veness), who not untypically lodged with them too. There's is a simple enough life, contentedly living in a newly built suburbia with a garden, whilst their children grow to adulthood - going through the daily motions and routines familiar to all. To a large extent, that's what gives the film much of to charming potency. Each character has a storyline of their own, and the episodic nature of their evolution takes them through the stages of their developing lives succ...

    June 30, 2022

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