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The Happy Family

(1952)

March 30, 1952• 1h 26m
78%
TMDB Score

Overview

When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.

Muriel Box

Director

Top Billed Cast

SH

Stanley Holloway

Henry Lord

KH

Kathleen Harrison

Lillian Lord

NW

Naunton Wayne

Mr. Filch

DN

Dandy Nichols

Ada

JS

John Stratton

David

EM

Eileen Moore

Joan

SM

Shirley Mitchell

Marina

MB

Margaret Barton

Anne

GC

George Cole

Cyril

MM

Miles Malleson

Mr. Thwaites