Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... This Happy Breed [1944 film] (1944)by David Lean (Director)
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesThe Criterion Collection (605)
No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresNo genres RatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
London between the wars, as seen by a couple of old soldier comrades from 1914-18. Robert Newton is one of them, married to an odd-accented Celia Johnson, with troublesome kids and a spinster relation to support. Stanley Holloway is the other and somehow is the father of the ubiquitous John Mills.
Noel Coward and David Lean worked together to bring their saga into our hearts and minds, as we rejoice in the good times and empathise with the bad ones. It may be hokum, but some of it works.
The best scenes are the quiet ones – especially the scene without dialogue where mum and dad react to bad news. Newton and Johnson also have considerable rapport in their scenes which works well.(fonte: imdb)