The Happiest Days Of Your Life. Image shows from L to R: Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim). Copyright: London Films / Individual Pictures
The Happiest Days Of Your Life

The Happiest Days Of Your Life

  • 1950 film

In a Whitehall mix-up, an all-girls' boarding school, St Swithin's, is "re-evacuated" to share the facilities of all-boys' school Nutbourne College. Stars Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Guy Middleton, Joyce Grenfell, Edward Rigby and more.

The Happiest Days Of Your Life

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 boys' 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.

First released: Monday 4th May 2009

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