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starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness, Alison Leggatt, Stanley Hollowaydirected by: David Lean
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302969412
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302969417
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: June 16, 2000
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 45468
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: April 12, 1947
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Editorial Review:
Description:
David Lean's beautiful adaptation of Noel Coward's play is an absorbing as well as charming look at an English family's struggle for stability between the two World Wars. Lean does a masterful job of gently penetrating human nature with truly imaginative camera direction. Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are brilliant, with an especially poignant performance by Johnson. One of David Lean's best cinematic accomplishments.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The way we were
This Happy Breed (the title is a quotation from Shakespeare)began as a play by Noel Coward and depicts life in blue collar England -specifically in relatively prosperous London - through the experiences of one family in a small row house in South London between 1919 and 1939 .The story is intended to typify a way of life and mindset ,a fact made evident in its closing shot as the camera pulls away to show the house as simply one small unit surrounded by other identical buildings ,each with its ... Read More
Rating:  - A Family Finds Entertainment
In a way this is nothing more than a Technicolor remake of CAVALCADE, and not as good, so save yourself the agony and see CAVALCADE instead; but on the other hand if you haven't seen the previous Noel Coward pageant play, this one is tasty indeed, not least because of the glorious color effects, so that every scene looks like it's being projected on the softest of apple blossoms. The stage set (a suburban London kitchen and family room) is lovingly installed in act one, and we never really leave it ... Read More
Rating: - They couldn't have possibly drank that much tea.
1st of all this is not a home front movie. To have that you need a war front & there was none. This movie may have been made in 1944 but was not released until 1947. 1919-39, was a time of peace for 20 years between the wars when The United Kingdom was trying to cope with the fact that they had lost 1 million men killed & a million more at least maimed & disabled. Frank is a vet who survived as is his neighbor & best friend Bob. They have settled in the suburbs & the traquility ... Read More
Rating: - At Home Between The Wars
Robert Newton and Celia Johnson star as the parents of the Gibbons family in this episodic David Lean film that charts the history of the family between the two World Wars. It tells the story of homefront re-adjustment following WWI, the family conflicts that arise as social and political pressures mount, and it demonstrates the need for solidarity and courage in the face of the imminent war. As always with a David Lean film, the British cast is exceptionally strong, with a notable performance by Celia ... Read More
Rating: - A boost for the War effort
Noel Coward and David Lean made several pictures together during WWII as a way of boosting the morale in Britain. The most famous is probably "Brief Encounter" and the most war themed is "In Which We Serve", but "This Happy Breed" is the homefront movie. It follows the life of one family from before the war to "the present." The men who go away to war aren't followed it's their loved ones at home. Great Britain went through far more during World War II than the United States, rationing started earlier, ... Read More
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