This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed (1944)

A Sweeping Panorama of Living

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival, and even another World War.

star 7.1
  • Release Date: 1944-05-28
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Director: David Lean

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  • Trailer

    Cast

    • Robert Newton

      Frank Gibbons

    • Celia Johnson

      Ethel Gibbons

    • Amy Veness

      Mrs. Flint

    • Alison Leggatt

      Aunt Sylvia

    • Stanley Holloway

      Bob Mitchell

    • John Mills

      Billy Mitchell

    • Kay Walsh

      Queenie Gibbons

    • Eileen Erskine

      Vi Gibbons

    • John Blythe

      Reg Gibbons

    • Guy Verney

      Sam Leadbitter

    • Betty Fleetwood

      Phyllis Blake

    • Merle Tottenham

      Edie

    • Mabel Etherington

      Woman in Crowd

    • Jack May

      Mourner

    • Laurence Olivier

      Narrator (voice)

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