This Happy Breed (1944)
This Happy Breed (1944)
DVDRip | MKV | 608 x 444 | x264 @ 1853 Kbps | English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | 111 min | 1,68 Gb
Genre: Art-house, Comedy, Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 608 x 444 | x264 @ 1853 Kbps | English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | 111 min | 1,68 Gb
Genre: Art-house, Comedy, Drama
David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward’s epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades. Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are surpassingly affecting as Frank and Ethel Gibbons, a couple with three children whose modest household is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second. With its mix of politics and melodrama, This Happy Breed is a quintessential British domestic drama, featuring subtly expressive Technicolor cinematography by Ronald Neame and a remarkable supporting cast including John Mills, Stanley Holloway, and Kay Walsh.
This film by David Lean takes us on a journey from 1919 after the First World war towards into WW2. But focuses not on the fighting, but on the home front, and the effects of a changing world.
I love this films ability to take you along with the day to day routine of a large, close knit family. Youre there with their smiles and tears then then in an instant you feel the heartache of their tragedy.
Robert Newton has never been better - a truly mesmerising performance. Forget Long John Silver (although another very fine performance).
The rest of the cast are a brilliant complement to Robert Newton. John Mills is on top form in a cameo performance.
Did David Lean ever make a bad film?
The only down side to the film is you see how great the British Film Industry once was, and now its virtually gone.IMDB Reviewer
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This Happy Breed (1944)
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