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The Happy Family is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Muriel Box with Stanley Holloway
The Happy Family (1952)
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Add to a movie listLength 1h26
Directed by Muriel Box
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Rating65%
The Happy Family is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison and Naunton Wayne. The plot of the film centres on resistance by a family to the disruption caused by the construction of the Festival of Britain. It is also known in the U.S. by the alternative title Mr. Lord Says No. It was an adaptation of a play The Happy Family by Michael Clayton Hutton.
Synopsis
The House of Lords is a grocery shop that sits on the South Bank of the river Thames close to the site of Festival Hall which is noisily under construction. It is owned by the Lord family, a husband and wife with several children. Lillian Lord runs the shop, while Henry is a British Railways train driver, who has worked on the railways for over 30 years and who is just about to retire. He is looking forward to enjoying a quiet retirement at the family shop looking after his pet hare, Winston, though his spiritualist sister in law Ada has had supernatural visions of "men in black" bringing discord.Actors
Stanley Holloway
(Henry Lord)
Kathleen Harrison
(Lillian Lord)
Naunton Wayne
(Mr. Filch)
Dandy Nichols
(Ada)
John Stratton
(David)
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