David Lean's second film as director, his first one solo after co-directing In Which We Serve (1942) with Noël Coward, who produced this film, based upon his own play. It's a very good character ...

Frank Gibbons, living right by the Clapham omnibus, is Noel Coward’s idealised English working-man, ever grateful to his employer in this cavalcade of the lower classes. He’s similar to his new ...

Episodic telling of 20 years of the working-class Gibbons family in their South London rental house from 1919 to 1939--from just after the conclusion of WWI to just before the start of WWII. Beyond ...

This marriage ain't big enough for the both of them.

The title of Noel Coward’s little-known 1942 drama This Happy Breed is ironic: though it comes from Shakespeare’s paean to England as “this orb, this sceptre’d isle,” the English family it portrays ...

London family saga. This Happy Breed covers the broad sweep of twenty years, from June 1919 to June 1939. Against the background of great international events of the time – the General Strike, the ...