6.4
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
Alastair Sim
Wetherby Pond
Margaret Rutherford
Muriel Whitchurch
John Turnbull
Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne
Richard Wattis
Arnold Billings: Staff of Nutbourne
John Bentley
Richard Tassell: Staff of Nutbourne
Guy Middleton
Victor Hyde-Brown: Staff of Nutbourne
Percy Walsh
Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne
Arthur Howard
Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne
Edward Rigby
Rainbow: Staff of Nutbourne
Harold Goodwin
Edwin: Staff of Nutbourne
Gladys Henson
Mrs. Hampstead: Staff of Nutbourne
Muriel Aked
Miss Jezzard: Staff of St. Swithin's
Joyce Grenfell
Miss Gossage: Staff of St. Swithin's
Bernadette O'Farrell
Miss Harper: Staff of St. Swithin's
Myrette Morven
Miss Chapel: Staff of St. Swithin's
Patience Rentoul
Miss Armstrong: Staff of St. Swithin's
Lilian Stanley
Miss Curtis: Staff of St. Swithin's
Kenneth Downey
Sir Angus McNally
Laurence Naismith
Dr. Collet
Stringer Davis
Rev. Rich
Stanley Lemin
Mr. Parry
Olwen Brookes
Mrs. Parry
Alan Broadhurst
Mr. Ibbertson
Vivien Wood
Mrs. Ibbertson
Nan Munro
Mrs. Jones
Russell Waters
Mr. West
George Benson
Mr. Tripp
Angela Glynne
Barbara Colhoun
Patricia Owens
Angela Parry
Margaret Anderson
Alice
Betty Blackler
Mary
Fred Marshall
Metcalf
John Rhodes
Cranbourne
Jim Davis
Talbot
Keith Faulkner
Unsworth
William Simonds
Oliver
George Cole
Junior Assistant Caretaker at Ministry of Education (Uncredited)
Beryl Ede
Political Canvasser (Uncredited)
Gertrude Kaye
Assistant Cook (Uncredited)
Charlotte Mitchell
Ethel (Uncredited)
Pat Pleasance
Young Girl (Uncredited)
Mackenzie Ward
Benson (Uncredited)
Director, Screenplay
Frank Launder
Screenplay, Theatre Play
John Dighton
April 25, 2024
7
"Wetherby Pond" (Alastair Sim) is the headmaster of a boy's school who really just wants a peaceable life with his miscreant pupils at "Nutbourne" school. It's the war, though, and the useless mandarins at Whitehall decide that he is going to have to share his premises with another school. Thing is, they get all caught up in their own red tape and next thing he finds the intimidating "Miss Whitchurch" on his doorstep, armed with hundreds of girls, luggage, hockey sticks - you name it. They are there and there to stay. Before he can blink, "Pond" and his staff have been outmanoeuvred and his shirts are now in the filing cabinet! A sort of truce breaks out, cemented a little more when they realise that their charges have pens and paper and stamps. Letters to the parents about sharing send shivers down their spines. They must collaborate. A sudden inspection spells disaster for both of their careers unless they can institute some facility sharing legerdemain in double quick time. Will it work? Can it? Well we spend much of the rest of this amiable comedy demonstrating a degree of precision the would have made the D-Day landings blush. Sim and Rutherford both had super comedy timing and Frank Launder and John Dighton have adapted the latter man's play to ensure they get ample opportunity to demonstrate that to us. A solid supporting cast including the always entertaining Joyce Grenfell help keep this eighty minutes of mischief and mayhem working well.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00