UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15495310
Format:
1 BD (111 Min. + Bonus)
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Monaural
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1.37:1
Edition:
Special ed.
ISBN:
9781604655568
Series Statement:
The Criterion collection : [BD] 605
Content:
David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward's epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades. Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are surpassingly affecting as Frank and Ethel Gibbons, a couple with three children whose modest household is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second. With its mix of politics and melodrama, This Happy Breed is a quintessential British domestic drama, featuring subtly expressive Technicolor cinematography by Ronald Neame and a remarkable supporting cast including John Mills, Stanley Holloway, and Kay Walsh. (Covertext)
Content:
Extras: * Trailer - original trailer for This Happy Breed. In English, not subtitled. (3 min, 1080p). * Rerelease Trailer - the rerelease trailer for This Happy Breed. In English, not subtitled. (3 min, 1080p). * Barry Day - in this video interview, Noel Coward expert Barry Day, author of Coward on Film: The Cinema of Noel Coward, discusses This Happy Breed. The interview was recorded exclusively for Criterion in October 2011. In English, not subtitled. (15 min, 1080p). * The Golden Age - director, cinematographer, producer, and writer Ronald Neame, who was one of three partners in Cineguild Productions, together with David Lean and producer Anthony Havelock-Allan, discusses the shooting of In Whicn We Serve, various Cineguild Productions film projects, Noel Coward, etc. In English, not subtitled. (45 min, 1080p). (blu-ray.com) Following this is a lengthy 44-minute interview with director of photography Ronald Neame (found under a feature called "The Golden Age",) recorded in 2010 just before his death at the age of 99. He talks about how he first came aboard on the production of In Which We Serve, recalling the production, some of its controversies (there were those upset by the fact that this film showed a sinking English ship as opposed to a sinking German ship,) and the technical issues that arose while shooting in the pool used for the film's water sequences. He then talks about This Happy Breed (recalling how they made the film in "glorious" Technicolor but did everything to make it look drab,) makes his way through the other films in the set (Blithe Spirit and Brief Encounter) and then ends with him talking about his move to producer and producing Lean's film Great Expectations. Neame offers a firsthand account on the productions while also offering more technical details than other supplements found in the set. It's an excellent interview and I'm glad Criterion was able to get his input on these films and his work with Lean. (Chris Galloway, Criterion Forum)
Note:
Ländercode: A
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Orig.: Großbritannien, 1944
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New high-definition digital transfer of the BFI National Archive's 2008 restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
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The Golden Age (2010)
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Untertitel für Hörgeschädigte
Language:
English
Keywords:
This happy breed 〈Film〉
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Interview
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Blu-Ray-Disc
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Lean, David
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Neame, Ronald
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Kameraarbeit
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Interview
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Blu-Ray-Disc
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Kameraarbeit
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Interview
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Blu-Ray-Disc
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Interview
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Interview
Author information:
Coward, Noël
Author information:
Lean, David
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