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7.5/10   363 votes
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Director:

Frank Launder

Writers:

John Dighton (play)
Frank Launder (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

8 March 1950 (UK) more

Genre:

Comedy more

Plot:

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions... more | add synopsis

User Comments:

Great place to start for British wit more (12 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:U | USA:Not Rated (certificate applied for but not issued) (#15082) | Sweden:Btl


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

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

Goofs:

Continuity: During the class change scene, the knob on the banister gets broken, but can be see soon after as unbroken. more

Quotes:

Wetherby Pond: [responding in exasperation to Miss Whitchurch informing him that her girls will arrive imminently, as St Swithin's is a boarding school that specializes in outposts] Madam, I don't care where they come from or even if the sun never sets upon them. more

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Long Day Closes (1992) more

Soundtrack:

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Great place to start for British wit, 8 February 2006
9/10
Author: filoshagrat from Scotland

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.

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