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08/03/1950 Comedy 1h 21m
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Overview

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.

  1. Frank Launder

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Alastair Sim

    Wetherby Pond

  2. Margaret Rutherford

    Muriel Whitchurch

  3. John Turnbull

    Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne

  4. Richard Wattis

    Arnold Billings: Staff of Nutbourne

  5. John Bentley

    Richard Tassell: Staff of Nutbourne

  6. Guy Middleton

    Victor Hyde-Brown: Staff of Nutbourne

  7. Percy Walsh

    Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne

  8. Arthur Howard

    Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne

  9. Edward Rigby

    Rainbow: Staff of Nutbourne

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-04-25
"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 sh...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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