| Release Date: | Apr 1947 |
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| Genres: | Comedy / Drama |
| Awards: | 1 win |
| Runtime: | 105 min |
| Cast: | 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) Charles King (Himself (uncredited) (archive footage)) Bessie Love (Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)) Laurence Olivier (Narrator (uncredited)) Anita Page (Herself (archive footage) (uncredited)) |
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. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.
