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The Happiest Days of Your Life

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Plot

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.

Cast

Alastair Sim as Wetherby Pond
Alastair Sim

as Wetherby Pond

Margaret Rutherford as Muriel Whitchurch
Margaret Rutherford

as Muriel Whitchurch

John Turnbull as Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne
John Turnbull

as Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne

Richard Wattis as Arnold Billings: Staff of Nutbourne
Richard Wattis

as Arnold Billings: Staff of Nutbourne

John Bentley as Richard Tassell: Staff of Nutbourne
John Bentley

as Richard Tassell: Staff of Nutbourne

Guy Middleton as Victor Hyde-Brown: Staff of Nutbourne
Guy Middleton

as Victor Hyde-Brown: Staff of Nutbourne

Percy Walsh as Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne
Percy Walsh

as Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne

Arthur Howard as Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne
Arthur Howard

as Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne

Edward Rigby as Rainbow: Staff of Nutbourne
Edward Rigby

as Rainbow: Staff of Nutbourne

Harold Goodwin as Edwin: Staff of Nutbourne
Harold Goodwin

as Edwin: Staff of Nutbourne

Movie Facts

Rated

  • Not Rated

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • March 8, 1950

Production Companies

  • Individual Pictures

  • London Films Productions

  • London Films

  • British Lion Films

Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $0.00

Revenue

  • -

Runtime

  • 1.35 hrs

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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 Whitch…