Directed by:
Richard FleischerCinematography:
Charles Lawton Jr.Composer:
Dimitri TiomkinCast:
Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Linda Christian, Bobby Driscoll, Kurt Kasznar, Marcel Dalio, Jeanette Nolan, Will Wright, Charles Sullivan (more)Plots(1)
The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by Robert Fontaine. Set in Quebec during the early part of the 20th century, the film concentrates on the activities of a large French-Canadian family headed by Charles Boyer. Most of the humor arises from "coming of age" complications and sexual awakenings, especially when worldly prodigal son Louis Jourdan returns to the fold and exercises his influence on impressionable young Bobby Driscoll. Not permitted to include the racier portions of the play, director Richard Fleischer compensated by adopting a frenetic, farcelike pace. Happy Time was later musicalized on Broadway in the 1960s, with Robert Goulet in the Louis Jourdan part. (official distributor synopsis)
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