This Happy Breed

Directed by David Lean
PG
October 31, 1944    1h 50mComedy, Drama,
7.3100%78%7.1
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of World War I to the beginning of World War II.
  • Robert NewtonFrank Gibbons
  • Celia JohnsonEthel Gibbons
  • Amy VenessMrs. Flint
  • Alison LeggattAunt Sylvia
  • Stanley HollowayBob Mitchell
  • John MillsBilly Mitchell
  • Kay WalshQueenie Gibbons
  • Eileen ErskineVi Gibbons
  • John BlytheReg Gibbons
  • Guy VerneySam Leadbitter
  • Betty FleetwoodPhyllis Blake
  • Merle TottenhamEdie
  • Mabel EtheringtonWoman in Crowd
  • Jack MayMourner
  • Laurence OlivierNarrator (voice)
  • David LeanDirector / Screenplay
  • Ronald NeameScreenplay / Associate Producer / Director Of Photography
  • Anthony Havelock-AllanScreenplay
  • Noël CowardProducer / Theatre Play
  • C.P. NormanArt Direction

This Happy Breed Ratings & Reviews

  • Mick BMarch 5, 2025
    When you think you're hard done to living in this day and age, watch 'This Happy Breed' and you soon realise things aren't so bad ! Great nostalgic watch of the what makes us BRITISH !! 👍

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