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1944

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THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit. Read more

Starring	Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Stanley Holloway
Director	David Lean
Genres	Comedy

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Starring	Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Stanley Holloway, Kay Walsh
Director	David Lean
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 46 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy
Language	DVD: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: None
Released	Production year: 1944 To Rent: DVD: Unavailable for rental To Buy: DVD: 05 May 2050

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- Coward's domestic epic is unconvincingly written and largely miscast, but sheer professionalism gets it through, and the decor is historically interesting.
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  A glimpse of 'real' social life in the late 1930s. Ahead of its time ( it's a bit like some of today's soaps in certain ways), with a cast that ... read more »
  
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  I'm getting on now and grew up during the war and although this film may seem to be very dated it certainly brings back many memories for me. It captures ... read more »
  
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  THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British ...