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It's Great to be Young!

6.2 94 mins Music   Comedy   1956
Marble Arch Productions  
Director(s): Cyril Frankel

Release Date: 26 Wed, Dec 1956

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.

Casts of It's Great to be Young!

John Mills

as Dingle

Cecil Parker

as Frome, Headmaster

John Salew

as Routledge, a Senior Master

Elizabeth Kentish

as Mrs Castle, a School Mistress

Mona Washbourne

as Miss Merrow, a School Mistress

Mary Merrall

as Miss Wyvern, a School Mistress

Derek Blomfield

as Paterson, Sports Master

Jeremy Spenser

as Nicky, The Angel Hill Kids

Dorothy Bromiley

as Paulette, The Angel Hill Kids

Brian Smith

as Ginger, The Angel Hill Kids

Wilfred Downing

as Browning, The Angel Hill Kids

Robert Dickens

as Morris, The Angel Hill Kids

Dawson France

as Crowther, The Angel Hill Kids

Carole Shelley

as Peggy, The Angel Hill Kids

Richard O'Sullivan

as Lawson, The Angel Hill Kids

Norman Pierce

as Publican

Eleanor Summerfield

as Barmaid

Bryan Forbes

as Organ Salesman

Marjorie Rhodes

as Landlady

Eddie Byrne

as Mr. Morris

Russell Waters

as School Inspector

Joan Benham

as Mr. Routledge's Companion (uncredited)

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