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From acclaimed director Frank Launder,‘The Happiest Days of your life’ is a precursor to the hugely successful St, Trinian’s series, set in Nutbourn College, the most established and respectable of boy’s schools. A military mistake billets a girls’ school to share the college’s premises, to the outrage of their horrified headmaster and headmistress, played with comic mastery by Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford. Initially the two are hostile to one another. However, with a staff of dazed, eccentric teachers and a student body of knowing and troublesome children, they are forced to pull together as the situation stumbles from the sublime to the ridiculous! Unmissable and hilarious, this is classic British comedy at its best.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: From acclaimed director Frank Launder, The Happiest Days Of Your Life is a precursor to the hugely successful St. Trinian's series. Nutbourn College, the most established and respectable of boys' schools, is run by unyielding Headmaster Wetherby Pond [Alastair Sim.] When a military mistake billets a girls' school to share the college's premises due to wartime restrictions, he is outraged. However, he soon discovers he has met his match when he encounters the Headmistress of the girls' school in question, the formidable Muriel Whitchurch [Margaret Rutherford]. Initially the two are hostile to one another, but with a staff of dazed, eccentric teachers and a student body whose mischief knows no bounds, they are forced to pull together. Then, just when they thought the situation couldn't get any more complicated, they discover they are faced with two troublesome visits on the same day; one from a group of parents, who must believe the school is only for girls, and one from the Ministry, who must be presented with an all boys establishment! Unmissable and hilarious, this is classic British comedy at its best. ...The Happiest Days of Your Life
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143 of 144 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Sometimes overlooked, this is a charming and very funny self-mocking episode of a bygone era. Set in about 1949 (the 1948 Railways Nationalisation is mentioned in a gag) this has a wealth of amusing characters, great dialogue and hilarious scenes when confusion reign. Initially the confusion is on the part of the St. Swithuns mistresses, as they arrive at what they think is a girls school; boxing gloves in the common room, and the school motto "Guard Thine Honour" puzzle and horrify them.
Alastair Sim as Wetherby Pond (what a name!) is superb as he generally politely stands up to the women.
The sadly recently deceased Bernadette O'Farrell adds the glamour element as the beautiful Miss Harper, and the failed attempts of the lovely Joyce Grenfell as Miss Gossage ("call me sausage") to woo English master Richard Wattis (a superb sardonic performance) are brilliant.
I love this film, and I must have first seen it in about 1975 when it was only 25 years old, yet even then it was a relic of a lost age.
60 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I loved this movie when as a child I first saw it. As with so many old movies, I never managed to see it again for many years. I can't imagine anyone not enjoying a lunatic farce starring Sim, Rutherford and Grenfell at their best!
During WW2, two schools are told they must share one building. Each Head assumes the other school will be of the same sex as their own, but not so. At first the Heads are horrified but eventually they have to work together when parents are due to descend to see the schools of their darlings at work, and pupils and teachers work together in hilarious scenes moving from room to room so parents can see lessons and games.
Priceless old movie, one of the very best. Would give it 6 stars if I could!
During WW2, two schools are told they must share one building. Each Head assumes the other school will be of the same sex as their own, but not so. At first the Heads are horrified but eventually they have to work together when parents are due to descend to see the schools of their darlings at work, and pupils and teachers work together in hilarious scenes moving from room to room so parents can see lessons and games.
Priceless old movie, one of the very best. Would give it 6 stars if I could!
35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The first in a long line of comic UK post war gems. 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' sows the seeds of the popular St.Trinian's series of films. Great cast with gifted acting by Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford. Directed by Frank Launder, it is different from the later St.Trinian's films in as much as the school starts of as a respectable boys school. Due to a governmental admin mistake a girls school is 'billeted' upon them with hilarious results. The old war-time spirit takes over and they all pull together to overcome visiting parental problems. The DVD is a good quality black/white film and is very watchable. (I too wanted to give it five stars, only the 'edit' wouldn't allow that change...) Postage from UK to Australia took four days. Excellent!The Happiest Days Of Your Life [DVD] [1950]
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