Description: The brilliantly droll Alastair Sim (A Christmas Carol) and the imperious Margaret Rutherford (Murder Most Foul) become reluctant allies in this madcap farce about a British girls' school that is accidentally billeted at a boys' school. The Happiest Days of Your Life, which spawned the popular St. Trinian's film series, builds from sweet chuckles to feverish laughter as children fight, teachers romance, and bungling bureaucrats sink into chaos.
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Rating: - Please Please release it on DVD!!!
The other reviewers have already said what a wonderful movie this is. All I am doing is begging the powers that be to please make a DVD available. My old old video could break any day now and that would be an awful event. It also seems to me that there was an extra scene or two that I saw when it was screened at a college movie event when I was the age of the hapless students. If that is so, I hope the full movie makes it to the DVD
Rating: - One of the greats
It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the great British classic comedies ever made. Sim and Rutherford dance an exquisite and complicated dance of manners while wrestling for power. Watch out for Joyce Grenfell who steals all the scenes. Although the world in which the premise for this film operated is now largely non-existant (at least on the surface), viewers will adore the little touches of wit and dry comments which are almost unbearably perfect! Why on earth is this not on DVD?! Beg, borrow or steal a copy of this film, yes, even on VHS; pour yourself a glass of port and take the ... Read More
Rating: - Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim join forces in the only film they made together, and it is a classic.
"Gaming? Nicotine? Fisticuffs? We're moving in a descending spiral of iniquity!" So says the head of St. Swithen's upon inspecting the master's common at Nutbourne. The faculty and students of St. Swithen's have been ordered to share facilities at Nutbourne to avoid German bombs during World War II. Then there's the masters' library. "The Diary of Samuel Pepys? Abridged...well, that's something to be thankful for. What's up here? The Memoirs of Casanova? Wasn't that the book we caught Jessica James reading in the closet? Decameron Nights! Well, really! What ever else this place may or may not be, ... Read More
Rating: - Tweed, Tweed, and More Tweed
Frank Lauder's "The Happiest Days of Your Life" represents British comedy at its best. Alastair Sim (Wetherby Pond) and Margaret Rutherford (Muriel Whitechurch) provide a command performance as headmasters of separate non-coed prep schools. The supporting cast add an additional comical romp that begins as an ordinary day with the arrival of a new English instructor, Richard Tassell (John Bentley), which appears to be the plot of the story. However, that is not the case, and scene after scene show the unpredictable and uncanny craft that Lauder offers in order to portray the madcap adventures that ... Read More
Rating: - Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford, all you need to know.
Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford acting opposite and off each other. What more do you need to know? Sit back, enjoy and marvel how they can do so much with so little. Are there any actors today who can be so effortlessly funny? Bill Cosby maybe, but the list starts and ends with him.
If Sim and Rutherford are not enough, there is also Joyce Grenfell, but nothing can distract from two great actors at their wonderful best
