Ada Shore is mistaken for a new secretary, she brings a breath of fresh air to the traditional university.Ada Shore is mistaken for a new secretary, she brings a breath of fresh air to the traditional university.Ada Shore is mistaken for a new secretary, she brings a breath of fresh air to the traditional university.
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Ronnie Corbett
- Student
- (as Ronald Corbett)
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- TriviaFeature-film debut of Robert Urquhart.
- Crazy creditsDisclaimer in opening titles: "The Producers are grateful for the co-operation of the University of Glasgow. Nevertheless... All persons, places and incidents in this film are inventions. The traditions and customs of the four Scottish Universities differ widely in each... In this fifth University they differ more widely still."
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Diane Hart arrives at the very Scottish, very Presbyterian university in search of her uncle, Joseph Tomelty. During the Troubles, he was a revolutionary poet. He is believed to have gone to America, but he really is the gate porter of the university under a fake name. He also has a few businesses in town that arouse the ire of blues rocking Professor Duncan Macrae. Due to the usual sort of mixup that takes place in comedies, she is mistaken for the woman who is to become the secretary of university president Patrick Barr.
Miss Hart is an attractive woman with a smoky creak in her voice, and in the manner of this sort of comedy, she succor the weak, stands up to the tyrant, and captures the heart of Barr. Is he too set in his ways to do anything about it?
The story is underpinned by the growing Post-War prosperity that was cracking the old facade of Scotland. Time has passed, and nowadays Scotland's issues are of an entirely different type, but as a classical farce, it's buttressed by some good writing, some fine comic performances by the likes of Charles Hawtrey, and some good location shooting at Glasgow University.... whether that's meant to be the actual site of the movie or not.
Miss Hart is an attractive woman with a smoky creak in her voice, and in the manner of this sort of comedy, she succor the weak, stands up to the tyrant, and captures the heart of Barr. Is he too set in his ways to do anything about it?
The story is underpinned by the growing Post-War prosperity that was cracking the old facade of Scotland. Time has passed, and nowadays Scotland's issues are of an entirely different type, but as a classical farce, it's buttressed by some good writing, some fine comic performances by the likes of Charles Hawtrey, and some good location shooting at Glasgow University.... whether that's meant to be the actual site of the movie or not.
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- boblipton
- Mar 12, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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