The Happiest Days of Your Life
Nutbourne College, a venerable all-boys boarding school, learns that wartime restrictions require another school to be billeted on its grounds. The shock is that the incoming institution is an all-girls school. The two head teachers soon clash, each vying for the upper hand against the other and the Ministry. Yet a crisis or two forces them to put aside rivalry and join forces.
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Frank Launder
Angela Allen
Carole Acason
Cecil F. Ford
George More O'Ferrall
Clifford Price
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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.
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The directors of The Happiest Days of Your Life are Frank Launder, Angela Allen, Carole Acason, Cecil F. Ford, George More O'Ferrall, and Clifford Price.
The cast of The Happiest Days of Your Life includes Laurence Naismith as Dr. Collet, Arthur Howard as Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne, Richard Wattis as Arnold Billings: Staff of Nutbourne, Percy Walsh as Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne, Mackenzie Ward as Benson (Uncredited), Harold Goodwin as Edwin: Staff of Nutbourne, Jim Davis as Talbot, Alastair Sim as Wetherby Pond, Russell Waters as Mr. West, Gertrude Kaye as Assistant Cook (Uncredited), John Bentley as Richard Tassell: Staff of Nutbourne, Patricia Owens as Angela Parry, and more.
The duration of The Happiest Days of Your Life is 1h 21 mins.
The Happiest Days of Your Life was released on 08 Mar 1950.
The Happiest Days of Your Life is listed under Comedy on Fanbiz.
The Happiest Days of Your Life has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: ""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,..."
