The Happiest Days of Your Life

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Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim in The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.

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7.2/10

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Trivia
Was filmed in Liss, Hampshire, England, at the village infant school. The pupils were featured in the movie as extras.

Goofs
Near the beginning it is stated that there are two hundred and seventeen trunks and lunch boxes on the driveway. The following shot shows about forty or fifty trunks - considerably less than two hundred and seventeen.

Quotes
Wetherby Pond: My mind is made up on one thing Miss Whitchurch: if I sink, you sink with me!

Crazy credits
The opening titles appear over drawings by Ronald Searle in the style of his St. Trinian's cartoons.

Connections
Featured in Joyce Grenfell 1910-1979 (1980)

Soundtracks
The Theme from 'The Third Man'
Written and performed by Anton Karas
Heard as a wake-up alarm when Pond is sleeping in the bath

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9/10

Great place to start for British wit

This film, without doubt, is the clearest example of the British humour the Germans can't understand. One-liners run rampant in a film spawning one of the greatest series of films in British cinema history (St.Trinians). The story of bureaucratic incompetence amid post-war trials enables Frank Launder to direct maximum talent from all the cast. It's probably the only film in which Margaret Rutherford meets her match, in Alastair Sim, for forceful characterisation (she still wins though). Joyce Grenfell (bless her) and Richard Wattis both deserve mentions in Dighton's masterpiece of English etiquette and stiff upper lip under pressure.

No Rutherford/Sim/Grenfell fan would be without this in their collection. Absolutely brilliant. Why 9/10? Only 83mins long.