Having grown up in S. London in the years just after WW2, this great film brings back memories of how families were - all generations living together under one roof. It is so evocative. Less than 2 hours long and it was a lifetime. They certainly don't make 'em like that anymore.
I asked my old mum (94) what happened directly after hearing war being declared on the radio ? She said "well it was a Sunday so all the men went back out and finished cutting the lawns"
@keithrose6931 my great grandma burst out crying and said oh my boys my boys. She knew they would be called up after living through world war one she anticipated what would happen to them.
My mum is British and now is 98 still living in her own home and taking of herself. She lived through the bombing of London and married my dad in 1944, and American. My grandparents in England and my mother told me what it was like growing up for all her years in that Second WW, it was awful. This was a good movie, it was a good presentation and great actors. Thank you for sharing.
Live hearing that about your mum in her 90s , my mum was 7 y age when the war was on , bit in autrail , she pass long ago , nice ti see your mum,s all good and you still have her ,❤ I wish I had mine she died of elssimer desees not nice thing to get ❤
A great film that I first saw fifty years ago and have watched and enjoyed as many times since. An England now vanished with its sense of nationhood and humour that no longer exists.
My paternal grandparents were married in London on Christmas Day, 1928. They had my Dad in 1940. He married my mother in 1964 and they immigrated to New Zealand in 1965. I was born in 1973 and didn't visit my grandmother until 1992. Seeing the buildings and people in this movie gives me a window into life for my grandparents generation in earlier life.
A very similar story for me, my grandparents (both sides) married in 30s England, both parents born in the 40s, they moved to Canada in the late 60s and had us kids in the mid-late 70s. We spent many summers in the UK when I was a child and I have such feelings for the place.
@@Lucysmom26 Hi, Lucy. Nice to read that you have fond memories of England / U.K. It has changed a lot since you were here...we have a huge problem with illegal imiigration, and quite a lot of angry members of "The religion of Peace". 10,000 of them, including supporters, maybe, blocked roads / had demonstrations / did chanting (hate and demands for Gaza ceacefire, etc... Our health service is not functioning well...too many demands... Our obesity rate ? 2nd worst in the world...after USA, presumably... Fast food addicts are ruining their health...as in USA ..... There are a lot of very nice people still here, but I don't think we are a happy country any more.😢.. Some scenery (that hasn't been "developed" yet), is left, and there are some very nice places... Anyway, thanks again for your message. Best Wishes from England. P.S., I "love" your Dr. Jordan Peterson...🌈🙂🌎🌿🌲🦉💙🐕🙂
I am 71 and a Canadian but I love the English sense of humour and solidarity now completely vanished. This is a glimpse of a world now completely vanished. I met Celia Johnson in the 1970's at the back door of a London play, and she was terribly nice and gave me her autograph on the back of a playbill program, which I still have.
I don't think we've lost our humour,you have to be able to have a laugh to live in the UK!🤭I live in a small village in England and everyone I've ever known has had this same sense of humour,, so, it's still here with the silent majority , just buried under the vast nonsense of the very vocal minority.👍🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
@@DianaSheward I can understand your comments but as you say, you live in a small village in England where vestiges of the old English persist. Have a great 2024 and thanks for your intelligent response.
@@DavidJohnson-rj8zu I. Boarded at a school in Coventry in the 1980s,and the humour was still there, even though it wasn't totally white kids,but,yes,I can understand that where it isn't majority white folk from Britain,the same humour isn't going to be there.Our "betters"🙄must know what they're doing,not having any border controls WHATEVER 🤬🤬🤬!Let's hope this 2024 they'll see the light and actually DO something about it.We can but hope.......👍🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊
thank you very much for showing this wonderful film. A a German I love to see how it was in England so many years ago - and even in color. Otherwise I would never get to see a movie like this. Love the actors, the setting, the speaking, the story, the furniture, the culture, the time🌺🌹💐💝
I feel exactly the same , I have never seen this picture before here in France .I'm most thankful for having watched this great film which is in itself a beautiful summing -up of family life in Britain over a twenty year span.This is the kind of classic England I've become fond of since I started learning English .This is quintessentially old England .I do like John Mills whom I have already seen in various films here on YT.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. As an American I liked it also, very much. What tickles me about it besides it’s just a good story, is that it is a David Lean movie. That’s the same guy that made Lawrence of Arabia! He was a wizard filmmaker! Another good English film that he made is Hobson’s Choice. I think you would enjoy that also!
@@maryvalentine9090 David Lean? Yes, he is a great director ! Hobson's Choice ? Have to look for it. Thank you very much ! Now to all of us peaceful times, may God protect us all !❤💛💚
Love Robert Newton, and for a change basically playing "himself" here. Here as Mr. Gibbons, and also when he played the vicious ragged Bill Sikes in "Oliver Twist" four years later, were his greatest roles for me. Kay Walsh, here playing his daughter Queenie, was Nancy, whom he brutally murdered in "Oliver..." . Absolutely perfect cast, gorgeous original 1944 Technicolor, brilliant music score - Noel Coward's "London Pride". John Mills as the boy next door, Stanley Holloway as his comical Dad, Celia Johnson as the careworn wife and mother, and John Blythe - real-life son of Edwardian stage actress Dorothy Monkman, as the rebellious son. A true gem. Classic British films don't get better than this.
Yes, I do agree, Robert Newton gave us his wonderful version of Long John Silver, to which everyone who's ever dressed up as a pirate has him to thank his west country accent we all try to copy marvellous actor one of the British greats
YES, YES, YES! One of the finest films ever made. I love every minute, the wonderful opening, following the camera on the stairs, to that closing following the camera back down the stairs and out the door again. . . it's the old circle of life, and sadly, a bygone era. I watch it over and over and never tire. ❤❤❤
@@sallybutton6237 Yes, those older houses are still there in their thousands,( look on Google Earth, Street View) but insides probably stripped all out, and made into "Minimalist" style, where it looks as if no-one actually lives there ! 😊. Merry Christmas🎄 all ! 🇬🇧🎄😊🎄😊💙🎄 😊💙🎄🦉🎄😊🇬🇧
I loved this movie. These old English classics are just lovely. Even though I'm American I identify so strongly with the ethos and culture of England. Thanks for posting!
So did I .I used to be a great buff of America as a French teenager .As a retired man I now feel a lot closer to England , although it's been undergoing great changes. I'm hooked by English Culture and language as never before.
What a gem. Amazingly it's old, but not dated. It feels like watching a piece of social history. It's so much more interesting to see history through the eyes of regular people and the way they lived, rather than simply learning about dates and famous people. In 1913 my grandfather, of blessed memory, fled pogroms in the Ukraine (then it was 'the'), and found refuge in the UK. He arrived alone at the age of 12. He would have been 18 at the start of this film, so it was interesting for me in a personal way to see the world that he would have been living in.
Only just managed to watch this all the way through. What a great film? I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s, in London; my grandparents would have lived like this, so much of the ‘feel ‘ of these times were still around when I was a kid. Brought a tear to me eye guvnor !
@@thanksleft it was better in the sense of community which has been replaced with Entitlement and narcissism. Economically it’s in better shape now, Those houses in London would have been cheap even for our great grandparents but now they are multi millions on an average London street.
A glimpse of another time when people were so different and values more stable and aspirational. Drugs had not corrupted the nation, violence was not the norm, and society was more caring. Yes, there were some downsides and heartbreaks too, but they were far outweighed by the positives. Then things began to collapse and look what we’ve become today… how very sad…
@@hokuponopono4415 (On his way ? 2000 years ? Must be the wrong kind of leaves on the line..🌿..l.o.l. 😊. Or maybe the camel got " the hump " ?😊. 🇬🇧😊🎄🎼🌈💙🌿 🚂🌫️🏜️🐒🐪🚧🇬🇧 🇬🇧😊🎄🇬🇧😊🎄🇬🇧
A wonderful, very moving and sad film. Queenie going to Singapore was worrying to say the least for when the Japanese invaded in 1942, they took women to concentration camps and treated them most horrendously. I think now how amazing is it many people are fortunate to even get a flat in half the size of their house! Beautifully acted. Thank you. Xxx
1:41:14 I remember watching the scene for the first time and wondering how many people recognized the allusion to the Invasion of Singapore 🇸🇬 by the Japanese 🇯🇵.
This is the brilliance of Noel Coward. He can make us care deeply for this middle class family yet their dialogue is exactly the same as his witty yet hateful society parables. He’ll have the viper-tongued dames, the women who’ve done wrong sexually, people who battle one class over another to see who wins, etc. Coward knows people.
The Absolute Funniest part of this movie-aside from her “Buttering” his paws is when she says “He’s up to no good I shouldn’t wonder” & “ We should have had him “Arranged”!!😂😂Gotta Love the English!!
...oh my... never seen or heard of this before... watched it in black & white alone tonight... wow... reaches all the corners of our quietly hidden sentiments... simply stated... movingly terrific! Thank you for posting!
This film is the tale I have been told from my own family in London. Nan was called Ethel, who had a daughter Queenie plus 9 other children. Husband at war and being evacuated during the blitz. Wonderful to watch and listen to.
Sth Londoner & now perm resident of Edmonton Canada here.Thanks for uploading this absolute classic, this is a snap shot of my parents & grandparents world
A film that has a place for everything and everything in it's place. As my gran would say who grew up in the times portrayed in this masterpiece of movie art.
Such a script, so sensitive of Noel Coward. I would never have been able to see David Lean directing a Coward script. Excellent! Such a surprise. Delighted
This is such a wonderful glimpse of London of yesterday. It reminds me of the streets in Clapham and the Oval where I grew up. I often imagined what those areas would have been like between the world wars. Noel Coward understood the average Londoner and their attitude to life. This film bring portrays it beautifully, I have watched it so many times I almost know the whole script.
I lived and worked on Falcon Road in the 80s, I so miss it, and Lavender Hill. I saw my old workplace online and people were curious, "what is this place? Anonymous, been there for years!" I have recently twice travelled my old rail route to Victoria via Clapham Jn, not done for 40 years, next time I might just step outside the station and walk my old walks😊
Most enjoyable stay with a family of very human characters held together by honest chatter about their annoyances and the love of a couple whose real affection for each other takes second place to their support for all in the tired and commonly unthankful noise of their big welcoming household. A real treasure that even started to explore the real causes of war and the shallow talk of peace without a price.
What an amazing film. A very ordinary family move into a very ordinary house and live very ordinary lives against a distant background of extraordinary events. When the front door closes on the empty house at the end you feel you have just witnessed an epic, but the players were the lower middle class instead of great historical figures. This is definitely going to be an annual Christmas watch.
Film is a lovely swan-song to what seems like an ancient Britain. A father's chin-wag with his son, and talk about sticking together, loving the Misses, and fatherly scolding: ''don't you talk to your dear Mum, like that, my young lady-or you'll get a walloping....' Even got an old gran living with her married daughter.
Although I'm not 'that' old, I do feel like I know all of the people in THB. These people became the older & elderly people I grew up with, and who have only recently all just died out. I know their habits, their sayings, their ways of doing things, it's all so familiar & cosy, and sadly dying out with these people. Change is inevitable, but I try to keep much of this alive on a daily basis, not only as a comfort, but as some things are just the right way, the best way, the greatest generation!
I'm 23 years old and have always felt like i was born at the wrong time. In regards to sense of community, clothing and just the general way of life. But i am fortunate to live in a time when atleast we can share great films like this. Thankyou for uploading!
That's correct. I remember the coupons. Funnily enough they were great times, despite the scarcity and rationing. We all knew each others families and helped each other, when we could.🏴👍
That is SO SO TRUE! Reminds me of the mantras from the 60’s.. “war.. what is it good for? Absolutely nothing”. And “what if there was a war and nobody showed up”. Men don’t seem to understand how unromantic signing up it is until they are on the battlefield.
What an absolutely wonderful film. I was riveted from the very beginning! Very atmospheric and it actually made me cry for the ‘way things were’.. For all those long gone but who have left such a rich tapestry of memories behind. Thank you for uploading this! ❤❤❤
Omgosh, I've not seen this movie in decades. Truly love it. A fine movie indeed. Gracias so much for uploading. Feliz Christmas, a safe, healthy & secure 2024. Peace be with us all & Padre God Bless everyone!
This is my favourite film. So well done, such a typical family of the time, with many Victorian values. As did my maternal Grandfather, with whom we lived for ten years. I’ve watched this film so many times. Robert Newton plays a terrific part.
How the television habit has spoiled this for me. A real treat to see anything at the movie theater in my youth. Now, 15 minutes in and notice I'm already impatient. With a Noel Coward gem, no less.
I have seen this before : it was jolly well done. Celia Johnson is just right as the organised, practical lady of the house. The house is a similar layout as the "semi " we had at Heston ,the first home I remember.. And the same layout as my Auntie Bay's place at Dunchurch, near Rugby. Must have been thousands just the same.🙂🏡 Appreciate Celia's skill here, a down -to - earth lady, with appropriate accent. Compare it to the wistful wife in "Brief Encounter ", another Classic. The point about buttering the 😻cat's paws : my mother told me that it was quite true: the cat cleans its paws , and in so doing, it feels "at home".🏡👍😻 Thank you for this film, I haven't seen any modern ones with the same sort of "true " atmosphere..😊🇬🇧 The modern 📽️efforts are so full of stress, violence, etc., I only have to see the trailers, and know what to expect ! So I steer clear of them ! Ah well...😊 Merry Christmas. all, if possible, with the sad state of the world .... 🇬🇧😊🎄🦉🌹🌈🎼😊
Marvelous film, so enjoyable! I just wanted to blend into this family and absorb the loving and charitable spirit. Thank you for providing this for all to see. 💞
"I brought 'em here to see the wonders of The Empire, and all they want to see is the Dodge-Ems." Thank you for uploading this... and a splendid print, too.
This is a lovely movie, a classic period piece. Loved the attention to detail in the movie. The colours, and the little things they said. You know those little one liners, my mum used to talk like that. The cups of tea and the piano, loved every bit of this movie. Will have to watch again. Thanks for that recommendation Sean.
Gone are the days when a cuppa would solve everything. My family as I grew drank enough morning to evening. The blue lined china they have, I inherited form my Grandma.
Hello this film popped up as a recommendation to watch, I planned to watch on Christmas Day but decided to watch today instead. What a lovely film , just to see how it was back in that era, the values of that time & the changes as the years go by. I’ll be watching this again , thank you for sharing.
Agreed a favourite indeed. Besides Coward credit must also be given to Lean's genius direction and impeccable cast. Quintessentially exquisitely British .
Great film thanks for sharing, my family are from Tottenham my grandparents moved out to Hertfordshire in the late 50s. This was when England was English!
Indeed, THB is on my top films list as well, an amazing thing! Strange though, I always think it's in B&W until it starts, don't know why. Apparently, this film being shot in colour was a major achievement for the British film industry at the time, so another interesting part of the film.
Oh yes yes I found it by accident I love this movie it's one of my most favorite movies and I didn't have a copy of it and I didn't know where to find it and I just found it I am so happy if you could see me I was smiling a great great great great great great movie with great great 😃
Five star movie this right here. a real slice of the times, for real. one of my favourite films, a must see for vintage film fans. thanks for broadcasting this film for us 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🥂😀
Having grown up in S. London in the years just after WW2, this great film brings back memories of how families were - all generations living together under one roof. It is so evocative. Less than 2 hours long and it was a lifetime. They certainly don't make 'em like that anymore.
I agree. I can`t believe how much this film told us in less than 2 hours.
I felt transported to a more loving and thoughtful time. I feel nostalgic for this time and these people...
@@smokeykitty6023 me too
I asked my old mum (94) what happened directly after hearing war being declared on the radio ? She said "well it was a Sunday so all the men went back out and finished cutting the lawns"
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@keithrose6931 my great grandma burst out crying and said oh my boys my boys. She knew they would be called up after living through world war one she anticipated what would happen to them.
Not in Scotland, it was the Sabbath Day so no cutting lawns or turf . How times have changed 😂❤
That's just precious!
My mum is British and now is 98 still living in her own home and taking of herself. She lived through the bombing of London and married my dad in 1944, and American. My grandparents in England and my mother told me what it was like growing up for all her years in that Second WW, it was awful.
This was a good movie, it was a good presentation and great actors. Thank you for sharing.
wow, cheers to your Mum, thats awesome! 🌺🌺🌺❤️
Live hearing that about your mum in her 90s , my mum was 7 y age when the war was on , bit in autrail , she pass long ago , nice ti see your mum,s all good and you still have her ,❤ I wish I had mine she died of elssimer desees not nice thing to get ❤
God bless your Mum.💐
A great film that I first saw fifty years ago and have watched and enjoyed as many times since. An England now vanished with its sense of nationhood and humour that no longer exists.
So sad what's happening to this country
@@end-days Stop it from happening. And if you can't stop it, then give your support to someone who can.
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It will be back as soon as that so called "king" is gone. God has plans for England and the rest of the U.K.
Well the people didnt listen to the National Front in its heyday so now they have to pay the bill
I love Celia Johnson and anything directed by David Lean.
My paternal grandparents were married in London on Christmas Day, 1928. They had my Dad in 1940. He married my mother in 1964 and they immigrated to New Zealand in 1965. I was born in 1973 and didn't visit my grandmother until 1992. Seeing the buildings and people in this movie gives me a window into life for my grandparents generation in earlier life.
"NoProb":
Did you mean
"Emigrated " ,i.e.,
emigrated from England 😊.
No matter , we knew
what you meant !
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A very similar story for me, my grandparents (both sides) married in 30s England, both parents born in the 40s, they moved to Canada in the late 60s and had us kids in the mid-late 70s. We spent many summers in the UK when I was a child and I have such feelings for the place.
@@Lucysmom26 Hi, Lucy. Nice to read that you have fond memories of England / U.K.
It has changed a lot since you were here...we have a huge problem with illegal imiigration,
and quite a lot of angry members of "The religion of Peace". 10,000 of them, including supporters,
maybe, blocked roads / had demonstrations / did chanting (hate and demands for Gaza ceacefire, etc...
Our health service is not functioning well...too many demands...
Our obesity rate ? 2nd worst in the world...after USA, presumably...
Fast food addicts are ruining their health...as in USA .....
There are a lot of very nice people still here, but I don't think we are a happy country any more.😢..
Some scenery (that hasn't been "developed" yet), is left, and there are some very nice places...
Anyway, thanks again for your message. Best Wishes from England.
P.S., I "love" your Dr. Jordan Peterson...🌈🙂🌎🌿🌲🦉💙🐕🙂
@@rosemariemann1719 thanks for the clarification, I didn't know that. As they say, Learn something every day 🙂
@@Lucysmom26 what a great story! I'm glad you enjoyed your youth and creating stories with your family on both sides of the Atlantic 🙂
I am 71 and a Canadian but I love the English sense of humour and solidarity now completely vanished. This is a glimpse of a world now completely vanished. I met Celia Johnson in the 1970's at the back door of a London play, and she was terribly nice and gave me her autograph on the back of a playbill program, which I still have.
I don't think we've lost our humour,you have to be able to have a laugh to live in the UK!🤭I live in a small village in England and everyone I've ever known has had this same sense of humour,, so, it's still here with the silent majority , just buried under the vast nonsense of the very vocal minority.👍🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊🐊
@@DianaSheward I can understand your comments but as you say, you live in a small village in England where vestiges of the old English persist. Have a great 2024 and thanks for your intelligent response.
@@DianaSheward You would be hard pressed to find what you say in London and other major towns in England.🧐
@@DavidJohnson-rj8zu I. Boarded at a school in Coventry in the 1980s,and the humour was still there, even though it wasn't totally white kids,but,yes,I can understand that where it isn't majority white folk from Britain,the same humour isn't going to be there.Our "betters"🙄must know what they're doing,not having any border controls WHATEVER 🤬🤬🤬!Let's hope this 2024 they'll see the light and actually DO something about it.We can but hope.......👍🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️🐊🐊🐊
You had a 'Brief Encounter'. David Lean would smile
Lest we forget. A little Masterpiece.......
Oh yes it’s been a yearly favorite of our family for many years. A sterling cast.
Yes, one of my very favourite films also. Great cast + great director + great writer adds up to a great film.
This is one that never gets old. Ageless.
thank you very much for showing this wonderful film. A a German I love to see how it was in England so many years ago - and even in color. Otherwise I would never get to see a movie like this. Love the actors, the setting, the speaking, the story, the furniture, the culture, the time🌺🌹💐💝
I feel exactly the same , I have never seen this picture before here in France .I'm most thankful for having watched this great film which is in itself a beautiful summing -up of family life in Britain over a twenty year span.This is the kind of classic England I've become fond of since I started learning English .This is quintessentially old England .I do like John Mills whom I have already seen in various films here on YT.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. As an American I liked it also, very much. What tickles me about it besides it’s just a good story, is that it is a David Lean movie. That’s the same guy that made Lawrence of Arabia! He was a wizard filmmaker! Another good English film that he made is Hobson’s Choice. I think you would enjoy that also!
@@maryvalentine9090 David Lean? Yes, he is a great director ! Hobson's Choice ? Have to look for it. Thank you very much ! Now to all of us peaceful times, may God protect us all !❤💛💚
@@maryvalentine9090 I have found Hobsons Choice here on youtube, will watch it today. Thank you so much 🎀🎁🎗
Love Robert Newton, and for a change basically playing "himself" here. Here as Mr. Gibbons, and also when he played the vicious ragged Bill Sikes in "Oliver Twist" four years later, were his greatest roles for me. Kay Walsh, here playing his daughter Queenie, was Nancy, whom he brutally murdered in "Oliver..." . Absolutely perfect cast, gorgeous original 1944 Technicolor, brilliant music score - Noel Coward's "London Pride". John Mills as the boy next door, Stanley Holloway as his comical Dad, Celia Johnson as the careworn wife and mother, and John Blythe - real-life son of Edwardian stage actress Dorothy Monkman, as the rebellious son. A true gem. Classic British films don't get better than this.
Yes, I do agree, Robert Newton gave us his wonderful version of Long John Silver, to which everyone who's ever dressed up as a pirate has him to thank his west country accent we all try to copy marvellous actor one of the British greats
This is a wonderful film with many interesting features of the time, including the fall of Singapore 1940 that queenie will see!
YES, YES, YES! One of the finest films ever made. I love every minute, the wonderful opening, following the camera on the stairs, to that closing following the camera back down the stairs and out the door again. . . it's the old circle of life, and sadly, a bygone era. I watch it over and over and never tire. ❤❤❤
Am going to do a video where I go and visit the street and the actual house where it was filmed in London.
❤ I 'd love that! Thank you.
One of my favs too
@@seanjamescameron wow, I’d love that! Do these houses even exist today? If they do please go & film there 👍😎⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@@sallybutton6237
Yes, those older houses
are still there in their
thousands,( look on Google
Earth, Street View)
but insides
probably stripped
all out, and made into
"Minimalist" style,
where it looks as
if no-one actually
lives there ! 😊.
Merry Christmas🎄 all !
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I watch this wonderful movie every year. Noel Coward had it spot on. "London Pride has been handed down to us".....
Me, too.😊
I've got it on dvd 😊
I loved this movie. These old English classics are just lovely. Even though I'm American I identify so strongly with the ethos and culture of England. Thanks for posting!
East coast over west coast.
So did I .I used to be a great buff of America as a French teenager .As a retired man I now feel a lot closer to England , although it's been undergoing great changes. I'm hooked by English Culture and language as never before.
It is so beautifully crafted, composed as a work of art is composed. The casting could not be more perfect.
What a gem. Amazingly it's old, but not dated. It feels like watching a piece of social history. It's so much more interesting to see history through the eyes of regular people and the way they lived, rather than simply learning about dates and famous people.
In 1913 my grandfather, of blessed memory, fled pogroms in the Ukraine (then it was 'the'), and found refuge in the UK. He arrived alone at the age of 12. He would have been 18 at the start of this film, so it was interesting for me in a personal way to see the world that he would have been living in.
What a fantastic quality. It is like being in that time.Thank you very much. Lovely greeting from Germany.
Only just managed to watch this all the way through.
What a great film? I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s, in London; my grandparents would have lived like this, so much of the ‘feel ‘ of these times were still around when I was a kid.
Brought a tear to me eye guvnor !
Still there in the 80's in some areas.
Is Brittain better today or was it better back then.. just curious I'm from Canada
@@thanksleft it was better in the sense of community which has been replaced with Entitlement and narcissism. Economically it’s in better shape now, Those houses in London would have been cheap even for our great grandparents but now they are multi millions on an average London street.
A glimpse of another time when people were so different and values more stable and aspirational. Drugs had not corrupted the nation, violence was not the norm, and society was more caring.
Yes, there were some downsides and heartbreaks too, but they were far outweighed by the positives. Then things began to collapse and look what we’ve become today… how very sad…
The Labor Party; the unhinged, unwashed post-mod Left. These are the bacteria responsible.
It is very sad.. Lord Jesus is on His way finally! 🐉🤺❤️🔥🙏
Erm…I think WWII was violent enough for anyone
I agree with you, sometimes i think i was born a few decades to late
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(On his way ? 2000 years ?
Must be the wrong
kind of leaves on
the line..🌿..l.o.l. 😊.
Or maybe the camel
got " the hump " ?😊.
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It’s my favourite film too. It’s got everything. Pathos, and a very dry humour. Superb!
A wonderful, very moving and sad film. Queenie going to Singapore was worrying to say the least for when the Japanese invaded in 1942, they took women to concentration camps and treated them most horrendously. I think now how amazing is it many people are fortunate to even get a flat in half the size of their house! Beautifully acted. Thank you. Xxx
Tenko. I think that series is still available on you tube. All about the women's camps. Hard going but excellently done.
1:41:14 I remember watching the scene for the first time and wondering how many people recognized the allusion to the Invasion of Singapore 🇸🇬 by the Japanese 🇯🇵.
This is the brilliance of Noel Coward. He can make us care deeply for this middle class family yet their dialogue is exactly the same as his witty yet hateful society parables. He’ll have the viper-tongued dames, the women who’ve done wrong sexually, people who battle one class over another to see who wins, etc. Coward knows people.
What a lovely film. Make me wish I had been born in1920. Not born for these days.
@@niccymak8243 these days will become the best ever. After corruption elimination.
Watch it often with mum. 84. I'm 58. We both love celia johnson. 🇦🇺🏡
Everytime I watch this it,s like Granddad sitting beside me, I love the warm feeling.Thank you ❤❤❤
WOW!! Thank you for introducing me to this. What an amazing film. Everything about it is pure art. I will be watching it again!
David Lean films are wonderful ..Celia Johnson is an incredible actress as are all others in this film..Thankyou for putting this on
The Absolute Funniest part of this movie-aside from her “Buttering” his paws is when she says “He’s up to no good I shouldn’t wonder” & “ We should have had him “Arranged”!!😂😂Gotta Love the English!!
Yes, must be some old wives tale about having the cat know where he lives? Stranger that she puts the used paper back on the kitchen table...
@@be6715 Oh Lord you’re Right! I didn’t catch that ! 😂
Do you know the cat's name?It was Percy
My grandparents used to talk like that, "thanks ever so" " cor lummy" " ever so pleased, I'm sure" etc
...oh my... never seen or heard of this before... watched it in black & white alone tonight... wow... reaches all the corners of our quietly hidden sentiments... simply stated... movingly terrific!
Thank you for posting!
I love this film beautifully acted out the cream de la cream of British actors ❤❤❤❤❤
Classic, always makes me very very happy to watch this, thanks for sharing Sean
This film is the tale I have been told from my own family in London. Nan was called Ethel, who had a daughter Queenie plus 9 other children. Husband at war and being evacuated during the blitz. Wonderful to watch and listen to.
Do you know, I enjoyed that, I watch it all way through and googled the cast after.
Love this film, like living normal again.
Old British movies are the best 😊 thank you for uploading
A stunning cast and David Lean!
Thank you Sean J Cameron.
Sth Londoner & now perm resident of Edmonton Canada here.Thanks for uploading this absolute classic, this is a snap shot of my parents & grandparents world
A film that has a place for everything and everything in it's place. As my gran would say who grew up in the times portrayed in this masterpiece of movie art.
I think it has to be my favourite as well. Never get tired of seeing it.
Such a script, so sensitive of Noel Coward. I would never have been able to see David Lean directing a Coward script. Excellent! Such a surprise. Delighted
I love this film. England as it was. Sad its gone. 😢
Absolutely! Apart from advances in medical and dental care I wish I was back in those times.
@@christinehall6441 me to, and long John silver and his wooden leg
This is such a wonderful glimpse of London of yesterday. It reminds me of the streets in Clapham and the Oval where I grew up. I often imagined what those areas would have been like between the world wars. Noel Coward understood the average Londoner and their attitude to life. This film bring portrays it beautifully, I have watched it so many times I almost know the whole script.
Their house was in Clapham, I’m planning on visiting the street soon.
I lived and worked on Falcon Road in the 80s, I so miss it, and Lavender Hill. I saw my old workplace online and people were curious, "what is this place? Anonymous, been there for years!" I have recently twice travelled my old rail route to Victoria via Clapham Jn, not done for 40 years, next time I might just step outside the station and walk my old walks😊
@@JC57515 Nothing better than reminiscing
No coward for all his sophistication grew up more or less like that.
@@seanjamescameronIf you do, please drop me in line and tell me if you think it's changed. So much since then, before we bet it has unfortunately
Very wonderful heartwarming and bittersweet true to life story plot! Great acting!
Thank you so much for sharing this movie.
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Most enjoyable stay with a family of very human characters held together by honest chatter about their annoyances and the love of a couple whose real affection for each other takes second place to their support for all in the tired and commonly unthankful noise of their big welcoming household. A real treasure that even started to explore the real causes of war and the shallow talk of peace without a price.
14:42 - Reg on his way to the Wembley Exhibition: "I've got 8s.6d. and I'm going to spend every penny!" 43p for the whole day out - wonderful.
The London of my youth. Beautiful before it changed.
What an amazing film.
A very ordinary family move into a very ordinary house and live very ordinary lives against a distant background of extraordinary events. When the front door closes on the empty house at the end you feel you have just witnessed an epic, but the players were the lower middle class instead of great historical figures.
This is definitely going to be an annual Christmas watch.
I enjoy seeing the styles of dress and attitude the year my father was born and turned 5 in 1930.
Film is a lovely swan-song to what seems like an ancient Britain. A father's chin-wag with his son, and talk about sticking together, loving the Misses, and fatherly scolding: ''don't you talk to your dear Mum, like that, my young lady-or you'll get a walloping....' Even got an old gran living with her married daughter.
Although I'm not 'that' old, I do feel like I know all of the people in THB. These people became the older & elderly people I grew up with, and who have only recently all just died out. I know their habits, their sayings, their ways of doing things, it's all so familiar & cosy, and sadly dying out with these people. Change is inevitable, but I try to keep much of this alive on a daily basis, not only as a comfort, but as some things are just the right way, the best way, the greatest generation!
I think it's wonderful that you do that
I'm 23 years old and have always felt like i was born at the wrong time. In regards to sense of community, clothing and just the general way of life.
But i am fortunate to live in a time when atleast we can share great films like this.
Thankyou for uploading!
Loved it! Like watching an early Reality Show. The old Mother was Hilarious…doesn’t everyone have a relative like that.🤣
*And what is funny she was 68 when this was filmed!*
Always doomsday. So predictably pessimistic that its hilarious.
@@stinareed270 What was pessimistic about it?
Neither the British, nor the French, had recovered from WW I before WW II broke out. And, England remained on rations into the early fifties.
That's correct. I remember the coupons. Funnily enough they were great times, despite the scarcity and rationing. We all knew each others families and helped each other, when we could.🏴👍
@@hugovandermeer1566 Yes, people relied on each other so much.
"There'll always be wars as long as men are fools enough to want to go to them "
Words of simple wisdom
That is SO SO TRUE! Reminds me of the mantras from the 60’s.. “war.. what is it good for? Absolutely nothing”. And “what if there was a war and nobody showed up”. Men don’t seem to understand how unromantic signing up it is until they are on the battlefield.
What an absolutely wonderful film. I was riveted from the very beginning! Very atmospheric and it actually made me cry for the ‘way things were’.. For all those long gone but who have left such a rich tapestry of memories behind. Thank you for uploading this! ❤❤❤
I always feel emotional at the end.
Omgosh, I've not seen this movie in decades. Truly love it. A fine movie indeed. Gracias so much for uploading. Feliz Christmas, a safe, healthy & secure 2024. Peace be with us all & Padre God Bless everyone!
This is my favourite film. So well done, such a typical family of the time, with many Victorian values. As did my maternal Grandfather, with whom we lived for ten years. I’ve watched this film so many times. Robert Newton plays a terrific part.
Love this film. You go through every emotion just watching it.
When I read the name of David Lean I couldn't be happier!!!! 1 million thumb up ❤
What a movie! Thank you!
How the television habit has spoiled this for me. A real treat to see anything at the movie theater in my youth. Now, 15 minutes in and notice I'm already impatient. With a Noel Coward gem, no less.
It's quite amazing to see a colour film from 1944, think it must be about the earliest colour movie I've seen, thanks for the upload
Thank you very much for posting this vintage gem.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I have seen this before :
it was jolly well done.
Celia Johnson is just
right as the organised,
practical lady of the house.
The house is a similar
layout as the "semi "
we had at Heston ,the
first home I remember..
And the same layout
as my Auntie Bay's
place at Dunchurch,
near Rugby. Must have
been thousands
just the same.🙂🏡
Appreciate Celia's
skill here, a down -to -
earth lady, with
appropriate accent.
Compare it to the
wistful wife in
"Brief Encounter ",
another Classic.
The point about
buttering the 😻cat's
paws : my mother told
me that it was quite true:
the cat cleans its paws ,
and in so doing, it feels
"at home".🏡👍😻
Thank you for this film,
I haven't seen any
modern ones with the
same sort of "true "
atmosphere..😊🇬🇧
The modern 📽️efforts
are so full of stress,
violence, etc., I only
have to see the trailers,
and know what to
expect ! So I steer
clear of them !
Ah well...😊
Merry Christmas. all,
if possible, with the sad
state of the world ....
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Absolutely loved every minute of this film! xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Really, really well done. I lived in exactly such a house from 1956 to 1961 in Knowle, nr. Bristol.
Marvelous film, so enjoyable! I just wanted to blend into this family and absorb the loving and charitable spirit. Thank you for providing this for all to see. 💞
Watched it again on tv last night. Great film and David Lean my favourite film director.
"I brought 'em here to see the wonders of The Empire, and all they want to see is the Dodge-Ems." Thank you for uploading this... and a splendid print, too.
This is a lovely movie, a classic period piece. Loved the attention to detail in the movie. The colours, and the little things they said. You know those little one liners, my mum used to talk like that. The cups of tea and the piano, loved every bit of this movie. Will have to watch again. Thanks for that recommendation Sean.
Gone are the days when a cuppa would solve everything. My family as I grew drank enough morning to evening. The blue lined china they have, I inherited form my Grandma.
What's a cuppa? Is it tea or coffee or whiskey?
@@BrenB125 It's a cuppa tea (short for "a cup of tea"). I'll put the kettle on. Fancy a cuppa?
I loved seeing the shabby decor and plumbing pipework at kitchen sink.
@@BrenB125 tea, always.
@@gymnastica6696Yes, I do fancy cupa And I think I'll make one right now
❗ Thank you Noel Coward, David Lean and you, Sean James, for this delicious break in my day ! This movie never gets old...❤️
Hello this film popped up as a recommendation to watch, I planned to watch on Christmas Day but decided to watch today instead. What a lovely film , just to see how it was back in that era, the values of that time & the changes as the years go by. I’ll be watching this again , thank you for sharing.
Wonderful movie! Thank you Sean for sharing!
Absolutely brilliant film! Thank you so much and i know i'll watch it again.
No one does down to earth films better than the English do 😊😊
Agreed a favourite indeed. Besides Coward credit must also be given to Lean's genius direction and impeccable cast.
Quintessentially exquisitely British .
I watched this a few years ago - great movie, think I'll watch it again
Wonderful to watch this old classic. Thank you for uploading it.
Broke my leg 2 weeks ago and have little to entertain me....movies of today are so bad! Thanks for sharing...im watching it right now!
Lovely! Thanks for sharing. I found the accents fascinating - so similar to Kiwi.
Enjoyed every minute 😊
Great taste sean love these old films brilliant thanks 🎉🎉
Adore this film ❤❤❤
Thanks for posting this. Wonderfully acted, and brilliantly directed by David Lean.
Celia Johnson is brilliant in this, one of my faves. I was thinking about it the other day. I love spring and port wine too.
And Brief Encounter x
@@marie-ctunnicliff513 100% have you ever watched Victoria Woods brief encounter sketch, it's brilliant!
Yes I have, and as you say its brilliant! Victoria was a genius - I loved her 'Housewife 49', so thought provoking. @@daniellalucchesi5145
Yes both films I managed to get
Great film. Thank you so much for posting it.
Great film thanks for sharing, my family are from Tottenham my grandparents moved out to Hertfordshire in the late 50s. This was when England was English!
Indeed, THB is on my top films list as well, an amazing thing! Strange though, I always think it's in B&W until it starts, don't know why. Apparently, this film being shot in colour was a major achievement for the British film industry at the time, so another interesting part of the film.
Wonderful film thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm Thrilled to read the comments of people who love this film as I do!
It’s one of my most favourite films , I’ve watched more time than I can remember!
Oh yes yes I found it by accident I love this movie it's one of my most favorite movies and I didn't have a copy of it and I didn't know where to find it and I just found it I am so happy if you could see me I was smiling a great great great great great great movie with great great 😃
My God this was good. Thank you for posting. DA
Five star movie this right here. a real slice of the times, for real. one of my favourite films, a must see for vintage film fans. thanks for broadcasting this film for us 🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🥂😀
Such wonderful acting. So believable as a family. David Lean a great director.
What a wonderful film and much needed Thankyou so much
Thank-you for uploading this film, it gave me a lot of pleasure
Classic, great film full of warmth and good sense.