This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed (1944)

A Sweeping Panorama of Living

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1944-05-28
  • User Rating: 7.087/10 from 52 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 55min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Cineguild
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: David Lean
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Summary

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, 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.

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  • Robert Newton

    as Frank Gibbons
  • Celia Johnson

    as Ethel Gibbons
  • Amy Veness

    as Mrs. Flint
  • Alison Leggatt

    as Aunt Sylvia
  • Stanley Holloway

    as Bob Mitchell
  • John Mills

    as Billy Mitchell
  • Kay Walsh

    as Queenie Gibbons
  • Eileen Erskine

    as Vi Gibbons
  • John Blythe

    as Reg Gibbons
  • Guy Verney

    as Sam Leadbitter
  • Betty Fleetwood

    as Phyllis Blake
  • Merle Tottenham

    as Edie
  • Mabel Etherington

    as Woman in Crowd
  • Jack May

    as Mourner
  • Laurence Olivier

    as Narrator (voice)
Directing David Lean Director
Writing Noël Coward Theatre Play
Production Noël Coward Producer
Camera Ronald Neame Director of Photography
Editing Jack Harris Editor
Art C.P. Norman Art Direction
Sound Muir Mathieson Music Director
Camera Guy Green Camera Operator
Crew W. Percy Day Special Effects
Sound John Cook Sound Recordist
Sound Desmond Dew Sound Recordist
Sound C. C. Stevens Sound Recordist
Costume & Make-Up Tony Sforzini Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up Hilda Collins Wardrobe Supervisor
Directing Maggie Unsworth Continuity
Sound Muir Mathieson Conductor
Editing Norah Walsh Assistant Editor
Camera Eugene H.E. Pizey Still Photographer
Camera George Minassian Focus Puller
Camera David Lytton Clapper Loader
Camera B. Francke Camera Operator
Camera Jim Body Focus Puller
Camera Dennis Bartlett Clapper Loader
Crew Charles Staffell Projection
Visual Effects George Blackwell Modeling
Crew George Blackwell Special Effects
Sound Gordon K. McCallum Boom Operator
Sound Percy Dayton Boom Operator
Art Arthur Lawson Assistant Art Director
Art Harold Hurdell Draughtsman
Directing Anthony Hearne Third Assistant Director
Directing George Pollock Assistant Director
Production Robert C. Foord Assistant Production Manager
Production Jack Martin Production Manager
Production Kenneth Horne Production Manager
Costume & Make-Up Marjorie Whittle Assistant Hairstylist
Costume & Make-Up Vivienne Walker Hairdresser
Sound Clifton Parker Original Music Composer
Sound Muir Mathieson Original Music Composer
Production Ronald Neame Associate Producer
Sound George Paternoster Boom Operator
Writing David Lean Screenplay
Writing Ronald Neame Screenplay
Writing Anthony Havelock-Allan Screenplay

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