This Happy Breed (1944)

Directors

David Lean

Cast

Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness, Alison Leggatt, Stanley Holloway, John Mills, Kay Walsh, Eileen Erskine, John Blythe

The story

Laurence Olivier provides introductory narration over a moving aerial shot of 1919 London: "After four long years of war, the men are coming home. Hundreds and hundreds of houses are becoming homes once more". The film focuses on the Gibbons family – Frank, his wife Ethel, their three children Reg, Vi and Queenie, his widowed sister Sylvia and Ethel's mother – after they settle in a rented house in South London.

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