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The Happiest Days of Your Life is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Frank Launder released in USA on 16 september 1950 with Alastair Sim

The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

The Happiest Days of Your Life
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Released in USA 16 september 1950
Length 1h21
Directed by
Genres Comedy
Rating71% 3.5893253.5893253.5893253.5893253.589325

The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder, based on the play by John Dighton. The two men also wrote the screenplay. It's one of a stable of classic British film comedies produced by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat for British Lion Film Corporation. The film was made on location and at Riverside Studios, London. In several respects, including some common casting, it was a precursor of the more anarchic St. Trinian's films of the 1950s.

Synopsis

Set in 1949, confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls' School is accidentally billeted at Nutbourne College: a boys' school. The two heads, Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim) and Muriel Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), try to cope with the ensuing chaos, as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of their new opportunities.

Actors

Alastair Sim

(Wetherby Pond)Margaret Rutherford

(Muriel Whitchurch)John Turnbull

(Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne)Guy Middleton

(Victor Hyde-Brown)Joyce Grenfell

(Miss Gossage: Staff of St. Swithin's)
And :
Edward Rigby
Muriel Aked
Richard Wattis
John Bentley
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