Summary
Comedy starring Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford. In postwar Britain, trouble erupts when pupils from a girls' school are mistakenly evacuated to a boys' college because of damage done during the Blitz.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
- Comedy
- Drama
- 1950
- Frank Launder
- 79 mins
- U
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IMDBReview
You can almost smell the school dinners in this wonderful comedy, adapted by John Dighton and Frank Launder from Dighton's play and directed by Launder (witht his longtime creative partner Sidney Gilliat acting as producer). The bones of contention that arise when Margaret Rutherford's academy for young ladies is accidentally evacuated to a building already occupied by Alastair Sim's boys' school are beautifully observed, but the comic highlight is undoubtedly the precision with which the pupils scurry around the school to avoid groups of visiting VIPs. The heads are superb and the performances of Richard Wattis, Guy Middleton and Joyce Grenfell are top class.
How to watch
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Credits
Cast
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Wetherby Pond | Alastair Sim |
| Miss Whitchurch | Margaret Rutherford |
| Miss Gossage | Joyce Grenfell |
| Arnold Billings | Richard Wattis |
| Richard Tassell | John Bentley |
| Miss Harper | Bernadette O'Farrell |
| Victor Hyde-Brown | Guy Middleton |
| Rainbow | Edward Rigby |
Crew
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Frank Launder |
Details
- Released on
- 1950-04-10
- Languages
- English
- Available on
- video, DVD and Blu-ray
- Formats
- Black and white
