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Le collège endiablé

Original title: It's Great to Be Young!
  • 1956
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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John Mills in Le collège endiablé (1956)
ComedyFamilyMusical

It's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music-making. Dingle, a very unconventional music ... Read allIt's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music-making. Dingle, a very unconventional music master, helps the students in their time of need.It's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music-making. Dingle, a very unconventional music master, helps the students in their time of need.

  • Director
    • Cyril Frankel
  • Writer
    • Ted Willis
  • Stars
    • John Mills
    • Cecil Parker
    • John Salew
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.4/10
    375
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Cyril Frankel
    • Writer
      • Ted Willis
    • Stars
      • John Mills
      • Cecil Parker
      • John Salew
    • 12User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    John Mills
    John Mills
    • Dingle
    Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker
    • Frome, Headmaster
    John Salew
    John Salew
    • Routledge, a senior Master
    Elizabeth Kentish
    • Mrs. Castle, School Mistress
    Mona Washbourne
    Mona Washbourne
    • Miss Morrow, School Mistress
    Mary Merrall
    Mary Merrall
    • Miss Wyvern, School Mistress
    Derek Blomfield
    Derek Blomfield
    • Paterson, Sports Master
    Jeremy Spenser
    Jeremy Spenser
    • Nicky, The Angel Hill Kids
    Dorothy Bromiley
    • Paulette, The Angel Hill Kids
    Brian Smith
    • Ginger, The Angel Hill Kids
    Wilfred Downing
    Wilfred Downing
    • Browning, The Angel Hill Kids
    Robert Dickens
    • Morris, The Angel Hill Kids
    Dawson France
    • Crowther, The Angel Hill Kids
    Carole Shelley
    Carole Shelley
    • Peggy, The Angel Hill Kids
    Richard O'Sullivan
    Richard O'Sullivan
    • Lawson, The Angel Hill Kids
    Norman Pierce
    Norman Pierce
    • Publican
    Eleanor Summerfield
    Eleanor Summerfield
    • Barmaid
    Bryan Forbes
    Bryan Forbes
    • Organ Salesman
    • Director
      • Cyril Frankel
    • Writer
      • Ted Willis
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    9alexandra-25

    A very British Education.

    It's Great to be Young, (1956) is a narrative of a co-educational school and its pupils excepting their rights. Look further into the sub-text to find it is more about an evolving education system. Moreover it is a comment on the grammar school system. In this era, as is the case nowadays, the grammar school system was designed for more academically able pupils. In other words, a school for the children of the middle class who can avoid paying the education fees of expensive private schools at the expense of the tax payer.

    In this film it is notable that the boys are asked questions by the teachers on the subjects of history, Latin and music, whilst overlooking the girls on such questions. Instead girls are encouraged to pursue romance and domestic duties, such as knitting.

    Overlapping this dark side of the British education system is the upbeat, energetic, effervescent feel to it, with great performances, good acting and a fine cast of players, including the great Sir John Mills, and a very young Richard O'Sullivan.

    It is in many respects a time-piece of traditional school teachers, and education, with corporal punishment and conservative attitudes verses the post-modern jazz, the pre-rock 'n' roll era.

    A film that is upbeat, if a tad cheesy, with its dark comments on the British education system.
    10graham-55

    Truly delightful

    I am 40 and first saw this film about 2 years ago. It is full of fun, wit and charm. A true classic of English film making. As usual, Cecil Parker and John Mills are amazing together. Their performance and that of all the supporting cast, is true chemistry.

    If you want fun, laughs, music and nostalgia, this is certainly a film to watch. I just wish I could obtain a full version on video or DVD, but unfortunately, it has never been released in the UK.
    dbdumonteil

    Dead singers society

    It's delightfully old-fashioned,but it's full of Joie De Vivre and it's really much fun to watch!

    This grammar school is really too good to be true :all the pupils are very nice,very polite but they have a tendency to favor jazz music over classical ,predating ,in their own modest way ,the sixties'youth ,when England reigned over the whole musical world .

    Mr Dingle,wonderfully portrayed by John Mills ,is a teacher with whom we do need education.When the new headmaster arrives ,none of his colleagues supports him ,not even the gym teacher (and however his subject is not considered a serious one either). In the next decade,Dingle would have embraced the Beatles without a moment's hesitation.He's not only a teacher ,he is also the confidant (wait for the "flash"),and ,even without their instruments ,his class can play infectious music -in an extremely well-directed scene.

    Imitating the beginning of the French Revolution,the students after a "singing strike" and a conspiracy of silence ,lock themselves in the gym to support their teacher who has been unfairly dismissed (and has become the toast of the local pub).

    Plenty of fun with Mr Dingle!
    8beresfordjd

    Still watchable

    I saw this when I was a kid of maybe 10 or 11. It was my favourite film for many years after. It is, of course, very dated now but the performances are still great. Particularly memorable in this fifties curiosity is Richard O'Sullivan whose comic timing, even as a child was terrific - he made the movie for me. Carol Shelley whom I saw in The Odd Couple many years later was a particular crush of mine. John Mills is the central figure in this movie as a teacher obsessed with music who comes up against the authoritarian figure of Cecil Parker, the newly-appointed head of Angel Hill school. It is a snapshot of fifties school life in a typical middle-class organisation and it was quite like the grammar school which I attended (though it was not quite as much fun where I was).
    10maznar

    After 55 years, still shining in my mind...

    I saw this film about 55 years ago. And it is still in my mind fresh and clear. It brought me more emotions than any other film by John Ford, Ingmar Bergman o Woody Allen. Some one told me that the incredible, fantastic, young girl (five or six years old, white boots) dancing "claqué" (I think some English speakers name it Tap dance or something like that...), when the film is near its end, was the daughter of Sir John Mills, the well know Sarah Mills, a lot of years before Ryan's Daughter, and so on... Is it true? Some one knows? Just speaking about all that things make me feel 55 years younger... And, by the way, I have a light notion about the musicians. They were the Ray Martin Orchestra, is not it? The same people that in other memorable french film, "A la mi-Aôut"...

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    • Trivia
      Richard O'Sullivan (Lawson) was born in 1944 and by the time this film was released in 1956, he had made 11 films, as well as several TV appearances.
    • Goofs
      When Mr. Frome steps onto the 'tear gas' bomb, the smoke fills the entire screen in one shot, yet the next shot later there's only a little smoke.
    • Soundtracks
      You Are My First Love
      Written by Ray Martin (music) (as Lester Powell) and Paddy Roberts (lyrics)

      Sung in prologue by Ruby Murray

      Sung by Dorothy Bromiley (dubbed by Edna Savage)

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    • Release date
      • December 26, 1956 (Sweden)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • It's Great to Be Young!
    • Filming locations
      • The Royal Masonic School, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC)
      • Marble Arch Productions
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 34 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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