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The Happy Family (1952)

The Happy Family (1952)

Comedy
Release Date: 1952, March 30
Directors: Muriel Box
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: London Independent Producers
Cast: Laurence Naismith, George Cole, Stanley Holloway, Margaret Barton, Shirley Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Miles Malleson, Kathleen Harrison, John Stratton, Geoffrey Sumner, Eileen Moore, Naunton Wayne

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.

Keywords:

woman director london, england shopkeeper cockney festival of britain