This Happy Breed (1944)
- Directed by
- David Lean
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 62 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This film follows the lives of a family living in a London suburb between the two world wars. It shows their everyday joys and sorrows as the parents age and their children grow up.
bittersweetnostalgicfamily-centeredmelancholiclifelikesentimentalquietly emotional
What happens
This Happy Breed is a 1944 British Technicolor drama film directed by David Lean and starring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Stanley Holloway and John Mills. The screenplay by Lean (who also made his screenwriting debut), Anthony Havelock-Allan and Ronald Neame is based on the 1939 play This Happy Breed, by Noël Coward. The film tells the story of an inter-war suburban London family, set against the backdrop of news events, moving from the post-WWI era of the 1920s to the growing threat of another world war, with the passing of the torch from one generation to the next. Domestic triumphs and tragedies play against such transformative changes as the coming of household radio and talking pictures. The film was not released in the United States until April 1947. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Sowing the Wind (1944)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.