It's Great to be Young! (1956)
Let Yourself Go!
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.
- Date of release
- 1956-12-26
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Music, Comedy
- Director
- Cyril Frankel
Casting
- John Mills — Dingle
- Cecil Parker — Frome, Headmaster
- John Salew — Routledge, a Senior Master
- Elizabeth Kentish — Mrs Castle, a School Mistress
- Mona Washbourne — Miss Merrow, a School Mistress
- Mary Merrall — Miss Wyvern, a School Mistress
- Derek Blomfield — Paterson, Sports Master
- Jeremy Spenser — Nicky, The Angel Hill Kids
- Dorothy Bromiley — Paulette, The Angel Hill Kids
- Brian Smith — Ginger, The Angel Hill Kids
- Wilfred Downing — Browning, The Angel Hill Kids
- Robert Dickens — Morris, The Angel Hill Kids
Interesting facts
It's Great to Be Young is a 1956 British Technicolor musical comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Cecil Parker and John Mills. It was written by Ted Willis. The story concerns an inspirational school music teacher. Although the movie was very successful it has been described as "almost forgotten" today.
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