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Cette sacrée jeunesse

Original title: The Happiest Days of Your Life
  • 1950
  • Tous publics
  • 1h 21m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim in Cette sacrée jeunesse (1950)
FarceSlapstickComedy

Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.

  • Director
    • Frank Launder
  • Writers
    • John Dighton
    • Frank Launder
  • Stars
    • Alastair Sim
    • Margaret Rutherford
    • John Turnbull
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    2K
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    • Director
      • Frank Launder
    • Writers
      • John Dighton
      • Frank Launder
    • Stars
      • Alastair Sim
      • Margaret Rutherford
      • John Turnbull
    • 36User reviews
    • 18Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Alastair Sim
    Alastair Sim
    • Wetherby Pond
    Margaret Rutherford
    Margaret Rutherford
    • Muriel Whitchurch
    John Turnbull
    John Turnbull
    • Conrad Matthews
    Richard Wattis
    Richard Wattis
    • Arnold Billings
    John Bentley
    John Bentley
    • Richard Tassell
    Guy Middleton
    Guy Middleton
    • Victor Hyde-Brown
    Percy Walsh
    • Monsieur Joue
    Arthur Howard
    • Anthony Ramsden
    Edward Rigby
    Edward Rigby
    • Rainbow
    Harold Goodwin
    Harold Goodwin
    • Edwin
    Gladys Henson
    Gladys Henson
    • Mrs. Hampstead
    Muriel Aked
    Muriel Aked
    • Miss Jezzard
    Joyce Grenfell
    Joyce Grenfell
    • Miss Gossage
    Bernadette O'Farrell
    Bernadette O'Farrell
    • Miss Harper
    Myrette Morven
    Myrette Morven
    • Miss Chapel
    Patience Rentoul
    • Miss Armstrong
    Lilian Stanley
    • Miss Curtis
    Kenneth Downey
    • Sir Angus McNally
    • Director
      • Frank Launder
    • Writers
      • John Dighton
      • Frank Launder
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    9filoshagrat

    Great place to start for British wit

    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.
    10Mark Whiston

    Margaret Rutherford at her Best!

    After a long run in the West End this charming film re-cast Margaret Rutherford as the Headmistress 'Miss Whitchurch' in this financially successful adaptation made in 1950.

    All interior shots took place at Riverside studios in Hammersmith, London. The exterior scenes were filmed on location at a public girl's school near Liss in Hampshire. During the 12 - week shoot both Margaret Rutherford and Joyce Grenfell were staying in a hotel nearby and would often visit the school during the evenings where they would happily enjoy the company of the real school mistresses.

    Although the film's script contains only two original lines from the original play the leads and supporting actors are in fine form and you can only feel sympathetic for their predicament especially in the final scenes.
    8Learner5

    What a script - & what a cast!

    The play is cleverly constructed - begin with the porter, Rainbow - & let the audience see the background unfold through his eyes. The film follows the play with great faithfulness, working, no doubt, on the simple premise that it couldn't be bettered. Now throw in a host of superb character actors - & the result is a resounding triumph.A definite must-see.
    8hitchcockthelegend

    St Swithin's versus Nutbourne!

    A bumbling error at the Ministry Of Education results in Nutbourne Boys School having to share with St Swithin's School For Girls. This bemuses the respective head teachers of each school and leads to all manner of chaotic goings on, however the two are forced to come to an uneasy alliance in the hope of averting major trouble.

    The Happiest Days Of Your Life is based on the John Dighton play from 1948, with Dighton writing the part of Headmistress Whitchurch specifically for Margaret Rutherford. Replacing George Howe from the play in the role of Headmaster Pond, is Alastair Sim, and herein lies the crowning glory of this filmic adaptation, Sim & Rutherford are perfectly wonderful, bouncing off each other to keep what is basically a one joke movie, highly entertaining. Directed by the gifted Frank Launder, and produced by the equally adroit Sidney Gilliat, The Happiest Days Of Your Life is a quintessentially British movie, obviously a precursor to the St Trinians franchise, the film entertains the children with it's high jinks clash of the sexes heart, whilst tickling the watching adults with its very saucy undercurrent. Thankfully the chaotic ending cements all that has gone before it to leave this particular viewer with a grin as wide as Nutbourne Rail Station. Great fun. 8/10
    7l_rawjalaurence

    Frenetic Farce Evoking a Bygone Age

    THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE is redolent of an era of 'make do and mend,' when everyone in Britain had to endure the privations of education on a shoestring. Based on a stage success, Frank Launder's film boasts two towering central performances by Alistair Sim and Margaret Rutherford as the head teachers of the boys' and girls' schools forced to share accommodation. The two actors have a field day, using their full range of facial expressions to create characters who, although harassed, can make the best of an almost impossible situation. The supporting cast contains some memorable cameos, notably Joyce Grenfell as Miss Gossage ("you can call me sausage"), Richard Wattis as a harassed teacher (no one could do harassed like Wattis), and Guy Rolfe as a slimy boys' school teacher with an eye for young women. The film zips along at breakneck speed, especially at the end, when the two head teachers try their best to convince some visitors that everything in their school is perfectly normal. THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE is only seventy-five minutes long, but is nonetheless packed with incident and humor. Definitely worth a look if you're feeling low.

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    • Trivia
      Was filmed in Liss, Hampshire, England, at the village infant school. The pupils were featured in the movie as extras.
    • Goofs
      Near the beginning it is stated that there are two hundred and seventeen trunks and lunch boxes on the driveway. The following shot shows about forty or fifty trunks - considerably less than two hundred and seventeen.
    • Quotes

      Wetherby Pond: My mind is made up on one thing Miss Whitchurch: if I sink, you sink with me!

    • Crazy credits
      The opening titles appear over drawings by Ronald Searle in the style of his St. Trinian's cartoons.
    • Connections
      Featured in Joyce Grenfell 1910-1979 (1980)
    • Soundtracks
      The Theme from 'The Third Man'
      Written and performed by Anton Karas

      Heard as a wake-up alarm when Pond is sleeping in the bath

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    • Release date
      • March 8, 1950 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Happiest Days of Your Life
    • Filming locations
      • Langley Court, Liss, Hampshire, England, UK(Nutbourne College)
    • Production companies
      • London Film Productions
      • Individual Pictures
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 21m(81 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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