4 Movies Starring Celia Johnson

This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1947-04-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (1966 Reviews)

Director:

David Lean

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Anthony Havelock-Allan (adaptation)

David Lean (adaptation)

Ronald Neame (adaptation)

Fullplot:

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.

Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1946-08-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

86 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (24192 Reviews)

Director:

David Lean

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

At a cafè on a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although they are both already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday in the small cafè, although they know that their love is impossible.

The Captain's Paradise

The Captain's Paradise

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-09-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1103 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Kimmins

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Alec Coppel (story)

Alec Coppel

Nicholas Phipps

Fullplot:

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

A Kid for Two Farthings

A Kid for Two Farthings

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-08-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (592 Reviews)

Director:

Carol Reed

Cast:

Writer:

Wolf Mankowitz (book)

Wolf Mankowitz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours. Hearing from Mr. Kandinsky the tale that a captured unicorn will grant any wish, Joe uses his accumulated pocket change to buy a kid with an emerging horn, believing it to be a unicorn. His subsequent efforts to make dreams come true exemplify the power of hope and will amidst hardship.

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