Based on a stage play and very popular when released. This now looks tame, silly, slap dash and not very funny.
The Happiest Days of Your Life is set in 1949 when St Swithin's Girls' School is accidentally billeted at Nutbourne College which is a boys' school.
The head of the boys school is Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) which is failing. The teachers there are rather lax and Pond plans to call it a day and head for new pastures. The staff are perturbed when the head of the girl's school Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford) arrives with her pupils and teachers.
The arrival of the girls causes chaos as they do not have enough facilities such as dormitory beds for everyone. The staff and heads of the respective schools vie to get the best resources first.
Matters come to a head when a some school governors arrive to look at the boy's school and the parents of the pupils arrive to look at the girl's school.
Pond and Whitchurch have to work together that they can fool everyone that it is a single sex school.
This farce might had worked on stage and it might had been rip roaringly funny back in 1950. It certainly does not stand up well now. Sim, Rutherford, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole are good as ever and it does look like a prototype St Trinian's film.
The Happiest Days of Your Life is set in 1949 when St Swithin's Girls' School is accidentally billeted at Nutbourne College which is a boys' school.
The head of the boys school is Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) which is failing. The teachers there are rather lax and Pond plans to call it a day and head for new pastures. The staff are perturbed when the head of the girl's school Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford) arrives with her pupils and teachers.
The arrival of the girls causes chaos as they do not have enough facilities such as dormitory beds for everyone. The staff and heads of the respective schools vie to get the best resources first.
Matters come to a head when a some school governors arrive to look at the boy's school and the parents of the pupils arrive to look at the girl's school.
Pond and Whitchurch have to work together that they can fool everyone that it is a single sex school.
This farce might had worked on stage and it might had been rip roaringly funny back in 1950. It certainly does not stand up well now. Sim, Rutherford, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole are good as ever and it does look like a prototype St Trinian's film.