Charles Hawtrey turns in a terrific comedy performance in this rather sour comedy about unruly students and an unlikable secretary at a college in Scotland.
Story has a new secretary (Diane Hart) arriving at a college where drunken students led by Sheltie (Robert Urquhart) are overdoing a campus celebration, much to the annoyance of a dean (Duncan Macrae) whose son (Hawtrey) is not among them. She works for the college president (Patrick Barr) and intrudes into all the college business.
Sheltie frequents a local bar where students drink, and with his pals gets Hawtrey drunk and engaged to a local floozy. The students go on strike after Sheltie gets expelled, but the secretary wins over the president and the students win.
There's a silly subplot about the bar owner who is really a world-class scholar of Celtic culture (but no one knows who he is).
Charles Hawtrey is very funny as the uptight student (and son of the dean), but his treatment by others is rather mean-spirited. Macrae and Barr are solid. Hart's character is very unlikable as an outright liar and manipulative woman. Urquhart is a decade too old for his role as a student and comes off as being a stupid clod. Others include Joseph Tomelty as the Celtic scholar, Jacqueline Mackenzie as the floozy, Ronnie Corbett as a student, and Arthur Hill as the mystery man.
Story has a new secretary (Diane Hart) arriving at a college where drunken students led by Sheltie (Robert Urquhart) are overdoing a campus celebration, much to the annoyance of a dean (Duncan Macrae) whose son (Hawtrey) is not among them. She works for the college president (Patrick Barr) and intrudes into all the college business.
Sheltie frequents a local bar where students drink, and with his pals gets Hawtrey drunk and engaged to a local floozy. The students go on strike after Sheltie gets expelled, but the secretary wins over the president and the students win.
There's a silly subplot about the bar owner who is really a world-class scholar of Celtic culture (but no one knows who he is).
Charles Hawtrey is very funny as the uptight student (and son of the dean), but his treatment by others is rather mean-spirited. Macrae and Barr are solid. Hart's character is very unlikable as an outright liar and manipulative woman. Urquhart is a decade too old for his role as a student and comes off as being a stupid clod. Others include Joseph Tomelty as the Celtic scholar, Jacqueline Mackenzie as the floozy, Ronnie Corbett as a student, and Arthur Hill as the mystery man.