This Happy Breed

[Dandy Forsdyke]

Is this the film where one woman says to another, something like, "So help me, one more word from you and I'll slap you so hard I'll make your teeth rattle!"

If not, it should be.

[hankoler]

A great film but Iv'e said this before about this film , at the end, they move from the house with the grandchild into a flat , not something I would choose to do.

[stevie boy]

Originally Posted by hankoler A great film but Iv'e said this before about this film , at the end, they move from the house with the grandchild into a flat , not something I would choose to do.

I assume that they retired to the coast to something smaller.

[CaptainWaggett]

They're moving out of London because of the war, aren't they? Presumably the house was rented and a retired travel agent wouldn't have had a particularly generous pension. It must have been quite a large house - there were three adults as well as the children so probably four bedrooms.

[Harleybloke]

The shot of the chest with 'Singapore' on it, set things up nicely.

[FilmBuffuk]

Originally Posted by Dandy Forsdyke Is this the film where one woman says to another, something like, "So help me, one more word from you and I'll slap you so hard I'll make your teeth rattle!" If not, it should be.

It is, indeed, the film where the sister says to the grandmother that she'll slap her so hard that her teeth will rattle. I also like it when, after granny has died, Robert Newton says that "She neither passed on, passed over or passed out: she DIED!"

It is an extremely clever portrait of how life used to be. We may feel agitated by it now, with all of our freedoms and rights, but it shows very clearly the way people lived and, indeed, the differences between then and now. I am not altogether convinced that the way we live now is actually better.