Rent The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

3.8 of 5 from 85 ratings
1h 19min
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Synopsis:
Nutbourn College, the most established and respectable of boys' schools, is run by unyielding Headmaster Wetherby Pond. When a military mistake billets a girls' school to share the college's premises due to wartime restrictions, he is outraged. However, he soon discovers he has met his match when he encounters the Headmistress of the girls' school in question, the formidable Muriel Whitchurch. Initially the two are hostile to one another, but with a staff of dazed, eccentric teachers and a student body whose mischief knows no bounds, they are forced to pull together.
Then, just when they thought the situation couldn't get any more complicated, they discover they are faced with two troublesome visits on the same day; one from a group of parents, who must believe the school is only for girls, and one from the Ministry, who must be presented with an all boys establishment!
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder, Stephen Harrison, Mario Zampi
Writers:
John Dighton, Frank Launder
Studio:
Optimum
Genres:
Classics, Comedy
Collections:
1949: That Ealing Feeling, Back to School: Best Films Featuring Teachers, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 1, Films & TV by topic, Films to Watch If You Like..., Top 10 Films of 1972, Top Films, What to Watch Next If You Liked Scrooge
BBFC:
Release Date:
04/05/2009
Run Time:
79 minutes
Languages:
English LPCM Mono
Subtitles:
None
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
Colour:
B & W
BBFC:
Release Date:
05/10/2015
Run Time:
82 minutes
Languages:
English LPCM Mono
Subtitles:
English Hard of Hearing
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.37:1
Colour:
B & W
BLU-RAY Regions:
B
Bonus:
  • Interview with Andy Merriman - Margaret Rutherford Biographer
  • Interview with Martin Rowson - Cartoonist
  • Interview with Michael Brooke - Author/Journalist

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Reviews (4) of The Happiest Days of Your Life

Jolly japes - The Happiest Days of Your Life review by DW

Spoiler Alert
30/10/2018

Posh fun in post war Britain. Ludicrous story which adds to the nonsense.

Harmless nonsense from posh people.

1 out of 2 members found this review helpful.

Classic British farce and great fun - The Happiest Days of Your Life review by AB

Spoiler Alert
15/11/2019

With great character-acting from Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford, a typical UK film based on farce with amusing scenes and running jokes (vide the rugby posts/lacrosse nets). Great fun

1 out of 2 members found this review helpful.

Classic British Comedy - The Happiest Days of Your Life review by GI

Spoiler Alert
10/01/2023

A great British classic comedy in the mould of the Ealing Comedies and the St Trinians films, indeed the British class based private school system was a launchpad for comedy in film, literature and comics. Indeed you can see how films like this later influenced the early Carry On movies and later comedy such as TVs Fawlty Towers. But this is a cut above because of the fantastic lead actors in Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford (often forgotten British treasures). It's basically a farce centred around the restrained attitudes to sex and gender politics and one or two aspects may seem out of place to a modern audience. Set in the comedy gold world of a public school Sim plays Wetherby Pond, a pompous headmaster who fawns around the parents and Governors in the hope of advancement. When a Girls School is boarded with his boys it's more the gender mix of the teachers that causes such a hullabaloo rather than the pupils. This is a gloriously funny film and portrays a nostalgic picture of post war rural England.

1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.

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