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.

Alastair Sim
as Wetherby Pond

Margaret Rutherford
as Muriel Whitchurch

John Turnbull
as Conrad Matthews: Staff of Nutbourne

Richard Wattis
as Arnold Billings: Staff of Nutbourne

John Bentley
as Richard Tassell: Staff of Nutbourne

Guy Middleton
as Victor Hyde-Brown: Staff of Nutbourne

Percy Walsh
as Monsieur Joue: Staff of Nutbourne

Arthur Howard
as Anthony Ramsden: Staff of Nutbourne

Edward Rigby
as Rainbow: Staff of Nutbourne

Harold Goodwin
as Edwin: Staff of Nutbourne
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"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,...