This Happy Breed (1944) Reviews & Ratings

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This Happy Breed reviews

This Happy Breed holds a 7.1/10 average from 65 TMDB ratings.

This gently entertaining film follows the trials and tribulations of the "Gibbons" family - mum, "Ethel" (Celia Johnson), dad "Frank" (Robert Newton), daughters "Queenie" (Kay Walsh), "Vi" (Eileen Erskine) and their son "Reg" (John Blythe) alongside her mother "Mrs. Flint" (Amy Veness), who not untypically lodged with them too. There's is a simple enough life, contentedly living in a newly built suburbia with a gard…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

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