The Happiest Days of Your Life – 1950 | 81 mins | Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Adapted by John Dighton and Frank Launder from Dighton’s play, this lively, richly-characterised farce has fine performances throughout from Richard Wattis, Guy Middleton and Joyce Grenfell. Filmed at Riverside Studios and on location at a girl’s school in Hampshire.

During the Blitz of London, Nutbourne Boys’ School suddenly discovers that due to an administrative error at the Ministry of Education, it has to billet the girls of St Swithin’s. The two heads are soon at loggerheads – and in despair, particularly Wetherby Pond (Alastair Sim), who spends his first night in a co-ed school sleeping in the bath. When the girl’s parents visit, and the Nutbourne governors arrive, things go from bad to disastrous, Pond and Miss Whitchurch (Margaret Rutherford), decide to start a school in Tanganyika.