This Happy Breed (1944)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

David Lean

Escritores:

Anthony Havelock-Allan (adaptation)
David Lean (adaptation)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 abril 1947 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Plot:

Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs...

Plot Keywords:

Family Relationships | Death Of Family Member | Slice Of Life | Middle Class | Mother Daughter Estrangement

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Fantastic, Mesmerising history lesson

Reparto

Robert Newton	...	Frank Gibbons
Celia Johnson	...	Ethel Gibbons
Amy Veness	...	Mrs. Flint
Alison Leggatt	...	Aunt Sylvia
Stanley Holloway	...	Bob Mitchell
John Mills	...	Billy Mitchell
Kay Walsh	...	Queenie Gibbons
Eileen Erskine	...	Vi
John Blythe	...	Reg Gibbons
Guy Verney	...	Sam Leadbitter
Betty Fleetwood	...	Phyllis Blake
Merle Tottenham	...	Edie

También conocida como:

Noel Coward's This Happy Breed (UK) (complete title)
La vida manda (Spain) [es]

Duración:

Germany:105 min | USA:115 min | UK:114 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Clasificación:

Portugal:M/12 | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) (1996) | USA:Approved

Locaciones de Filmación:

Alderbrook Road, Clapham, London, England, UK

Compañía:

Noel Coward-Cineguild

Trivialidades:

David Lean's first film in color.

Errores:

Continuidad: In the opening sequence (DVD Timing at 2.30) the bathroom window opens out to the right. Later when Reg opens to the window to talk to his father who is in the garden (DVD Timing at 46.35) the window opens out to the left. Then during the closing sequence the window reverts to being open to the right.

Citas:

Ethel Gibbons: There will always be wars as long as men are such fools as to want to go to them.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "As Time Goes By: The House Next Door (#6.6)" (1997)

Fantastic, Mesmerising history lesson

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.