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Happy Land (1943)

Happy Land poster
Directed by
Irving Pichel
Genre
drama film, fantasy film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 15m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A small-town druggist mourns his son who died in World War II. His dead grandfather visits him to show him all the good his son brought to the world.

sentimentalnostalgicbittersweetslow-pacedreflectivewar-timefamily-orientedhaunting

What happens

Happy Land is a 1943 film directed by Irving Pichel and starring Don Ameche. A World War II home front drama, it was based on the 1943 novel of the same name by MacKinlay Kantor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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