A man sneaks into a girls' school disguised as a student to find treasure in Napoleon's head. What could go wrong?
Tommy Deacon learns that a gift bequeathed by his aunt is hidden in her house inside a bust of Napoleon. However, the house has been sold, and is now a girls school and to gain admission Tommy has to pose as the elder brother of Anne, one of the pupils. His arrival in the school results in a variety of escapades, but Tommy resolutely persists in his search for the missing legacy...
Acting
Bobby Howes' frantic physical comedy steals every scene.
Production
1930s girls' school set design is weirdly cozy and chaotic.
Director
Stafford Dickens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of over a dozen quickie comedies Stafford Dickens directed for British International Pictures in the late 1930s, most now considered lost.
Rène Ray became one of Britain's first female MPs in 1974, making her journey from schoolgirl roles to Parliament one of cinema's stranger career arcs.
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