Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #948 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-05-04
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• Formats: Black & White, PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 79 minutes

Synopsis
A mix-up by the Ministry sees boys joining the girls at Nurbourne College. With Joyce Grenfell as the Gym Mistress the scene is set for laughs.

Customer Reviews

The Happiest Days Of Your Life
Sometimes overlooked, this is a charming and very funny self-mocking episode of a bygone era. Set in about 1949 (the 1948 Railways Nationalisation is mentioned in a gag) this has a wealth of amusing characters, great dialogue and hilarious scenes when confusion reign. Initially the confusion is on the part of the St. Swithuns mistresses, as they arrive at what they think is a girls school; boxing gloves in the common room, and the school motto "Guard Thine Honour" puzzle and horrify them.

Alastair Sim as Wetherby Pond (what a name!) is superb as he generally politely stands up to the women.
The sadly recently deceased Bernadette O'Farrell adds the glamour element as the beautiful Miss Harper, and the failed attempts of the lovely Joyce Grenfell as Miss Gossage ("call me sausage") to woo English master Richard Wattis (a superb sardonic performance) are brilliant.
I love this film, and I must have first seen it in about 1975 when it was only 25 years old, yet even then it was a relic of a lost age.

Awesomely funny British classic
I loved this movie when as a child I first saw it. As with so many old movies, I never managed to see it again for many years. I can't imagine anyone not enjoying a lunatic farce starring Sim, Rutherford and Grenfell at their best!

During WW2, two schools are told they must share one building. Each Head assumes the other school will be of the same sex as their own, but not so. At first the Heads are horrified but eventually they have to work together when parents are due to descend to see the schools of their darlings at work, and pupils and teachers work together in hilarious scenes moving from room to room so parents can see lessons and games.

Priceless old movie, one of the very best. Would give it 6 stars if I could!

CLASSIC COMEDY AT ITS BEST
At last avaliable on dvd, a great british comedy classic , starring a host of great stars. A mix up at the ministry of education sees a boys school and a girls school trying to work together, with the teachers thrown into the plot trying to keep some sort of control.

A classic british black and white comedy that is long overdue to be released on dvd, a film well worth watching, dont miss it.