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CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THE CINEMA
bling and Aunt Syl. quarreling. We see Vi married happily to Sam, a boy she has known since childhood, and Redge marries Phyl, a girl he has also known for a long time. But while they are on their honeymoon Redge and Phyl. are killed in an accident. This tragedy seems to make Ethel much older and worried, but she has yet more worry, for Queenie, the youngest girl runs away from home.
So the story goes on, until 1939, just before the beginning of this war. Queenie comes home a better girl and is forgiven by her mother and marries a young naval officer who has been their next door neighbour for many years. Edie marries and leaves the Gibbons household, Mrs. Flint dies, Aunt Syl. becomes a spiritualist and annoys everyone, particularly Mr. Gibbons. Vi has two little girls, and Queenie has a baby boy, whom she leaves in her mother's care when she joins her husband in Singapore. The story ends with Mr. and Mrs. Gibbons leaving their house for a flat, complete with Queenie's baby.
Although I have not a favourite film, I enjoyed this very much.
8. K.B.
Although the ending was very weak and totally unsuspected, one of my favorite film's, if not the film I enjoyed most, was Noel Coward's This Happy Breed.
The plot was of an ordinary family of about middle class, between the years 19 18-1939. The family consisted of mother, father — a demobilised soldier, two girls 'Vi' and Queenie and one boy 'Reggie', plus 'Grandma' and Aunt Silvia. Reggie at first, gets mixed up with a crowd of 'roughs' and comes home with his head bound up, after staying out all night. Queenie, the spoilt one, refuses to marry a sailor and leaves home to live with a man who has left his wife. Mother, refuses ever to have Queenie in the house again. Then Reggie marries and gets killed with his wife in a motor accident. Shortly after this 'Vi' gets married and goes to France for a honeymoon.
The sailor then finds Queenie in France, very ragged and dishevelled and brings her back and then mother receives her and the sailor marries her. Then the war comes and Queenie goes out to Singapore, leaving mother to look after the baby boy. And mother and father pack up and leave the house.
Although the plot is ordinary, the way the people acted was so naturally that it was very beautiful.
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