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Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.
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- TriviaWas filmed in Liss, Hampshire, England, at the village infant school. The pupils were featured in the movie as extras.
- GoofsNear the beginning it is stated that there are two hundred and seventeen trunks and lunch boxes on the driveway. The following shot shows about forty or fifty trunks - considerably less than two hundred and seventeen.
- Quotes
Wetherby Pond: My mind is made up on one thing Miss Whitchurch: if I sink, you sink with me!
- Crazy creditsThe opening titles appear over drawings by Ronald Searle in the style of his St. Trinian's cartoons.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Joyce Grenfell 1910-1979 (1980)
- SoundtracksThe Theme from 'The Third Man'
Written and performed by Anton Karas
Heard as a wake-up alarm when Pond is sleeping in the bath
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St Swithin's versus Nutbourne!
A bumbling error at the Ministry Of Education results in Nutbourne Boys School having to share with St Swithin's School For Girls. This bemuses the respective head teachers of each school and leads to all manner of chaotic goings on, however the two are forced to come to an uneasy alliance in the hope of averting major trouble.
The Happiest Days Of Your Life is based on the John Dighton play from 1948, with Dighton writing the part of Headmistress Whitchurch specifically for Margaret Rutherford. Replacing George Howe from the play in the role of Headmaster Pond, is Alastair Sim, and herein lies the crowning glory of this filmic adaptation, Sim & Rutherford are perfectly wonderful, bouncing off each other to keep what is basically a one joke movie, highly entertaining. Directed by the gifted Frank Launder, and produced by the equally adroit Sidney Gilliat, The Happiest Days Of Your Life is a quintessentially British movie, obviously a precursor to the St Trinians franchise, the film entertains the children with it's high jinks clash of the sexes heart, whilst tickling the watching adults with its very saucy undercurrent. Thankfully the chaotic ending cements all that has gone before it to leave this particular viewer with a grin as wide as Nutbourne Rail Station. Great fun. 8/10
The Happiest Days Of Your Life is based on the John Dighton play from 1948, with Dighton writing the part of Headmistress Whitchurch specifically for Margaret Rutherford. Replacing George Howe from the play in the role of Headmaster Pond, is Alastair Sim, and herein lies the crowning glory of this filmic adaptation, Sim & Rutherford are perfectly wonderful, bouncing off each other to keep what is basically a one joke movie, highly entertaining. Directed by the gifted Frank Launder, and produced by the equally adroit Sidney Gilliat, The Happiest Days Of Your Life is a quintessentially British movie, obviously a precursor to the St Trinians franchise, the film entertains the children with it's high jinks clash of the sexes heart, whilst tickling the watching adults with its very saucy undercurrent. Thankfully the chaotic ending cements all that has gone before it to leave this particular viewer with a grin as wide as Nutbourne Rail Station. Great fun. 8/10
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- Das doppelte College
- Filming locations
- Langley Court, Liss, Hampshire, England, UK(Nutbourne College)
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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