The Happiest Days of Your Life

1950

1h 21m

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6.4/10

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Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.

Directors

Frank Launder

Writers

John Dighton(theatre play by)

Frank Launder(screenplay by)

John Dighton(screenplay by)

Stars

Alastair Sim

Margaret Rutherford

John Turnbull

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Alastair Sim

Wetherby Pond

Margaret Rutherford

Muriel Whitchurch

John Turnbull

Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne

Richard Wattis

Arnold Billings: Staff of Nutbourne

John Bentley

Richard Tassell: Staff of Nutbourne

Guy Middleton

Victor Hyde-Brown: Staff of Nutbourne

Percy Walsh

Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne

Arthur Howard

Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne

Edward Rigby

Rainbow: Staff of Nutbourne

Harold Goodwin

Edwin: Staff of Nutbourne

Gladys Henson

Mrs. Hampstead: Staff of Nutbourne

Muriel Aked

Miss Jezzard: Staff of St. Swithin's

Joyce Grenfell

Miss Gossage: Staff of St. Swithin's

Bernadette O'Farrell

Miss Harper: Staff of St. Swithin's

Myrette Morven

Miss Chapel: Staff of St. Swithin's

Patience Rentoul

Miss Armstrong: Staff of St. Swithin's

Lilian Stanley

Miss Curtis: Staff of St. Swithin's

Kenneth Downey

Sir Angus McNally

Directors

Frank Launder

Writers

John Dighton(theatre play by)

Frank Launder(screenplay by)

John Dighton(screenplay by)

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"Wetherby Pond" (Alastair Sim) is the headmaster of a boy's school who really just wants a peaceable life with his miscreant pupils at "Nutbourne" school. It's the war, though, and the useless mandarins at Whitehall decide that he is going to have to share his premises with another school. Thing is, they get all caught up in their own red tape and next thing he finds the intimidating "Miss Whitchurch" on his doorstep, armed with hundreds of girls, luggage, hockey sticks - you name it. They are there and there to stay. Before he can blink, "Pond" and his staff have been outmanoeuvred and his shirts are now in the filing cabinet! A sort of truce breaks out, cemented a little more when they realise that their charges have pens and paper and stamps. Letters to the parents about sharing send shivers down their spines. They must collaborate. A sudden inspection spells disaster for both of their careers unless they can institute some facility sharing legerdemain in double quick time. Will it work? Can it? Well we spend much of the rest of this amiable comedy demonstrating a degree of precision the would have made the D-Day landings blush. Sim and Rutherford both had super comedy timing and Frank Launder and John Dighton have adapted the latter man's play to ensure they get ample opportunity to demonstrate that to us. A solid supporting cast including the always entertaining Joyce Grenfell help keep this eighty minutes of mischief and mayhem working well.

Geronimo196725 Apr, 2024