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This Happy Breed

1944
1h 55m
Comedy/Drama
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Cast

Robert Newton (Frank Gibbons)Celia Johnson (Ethel Gibbons)John Mills (Billy Mitchell)Kay Walsh (Queenie)Stanley Holloway (Bob Mitchell)Amy Veness (Mrs. Flint)Alison Leggatt (Aunt Sylvia)Eileen Erskine (Vi)John Blythe (Reg)Guy Verney (Sam Leadbitter)Betty Fleetwood (Phyllis Blake)Merle Tottenham (Edie)Robin Burns (Man in Crowd)Mabel Etherington (Lady in Crowd)Dan Lester (Man in Crowd)Jack May (Mourner)Pat Ryan (Passerby)Jack Sharp (Removal Man)

Director

David Lean

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Synopsis

Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.

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