You're Only Young Twice! (1952)

57% User Rating

1h 21min

Ada Shore (Diane Hart) arrives at Skerryvore University in Scotland in search of her long-lost uncle Connell O’Grady (Joseph Tomelty), who was once a subversive Irish poet but is now working under an assumed name as a University porter. Ada is mistaken by Principal Archibald Asher (Patrick Barr) as his new secretary, and she goes along with the impersonation. Archibald and Ada fall in love, which incurs the disapproval of the puritanical Professor Hayman (Duncan Macrae).

Terry BishopDirector

Cast

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Duncan Macrae

Professor "Haywire" Hayman

Joseph Tomelty

Connell O'Grady aka Dan McEntee

Patrick Barr

Sir Archibald Asher

Charles Hawtrey

Adolphus Hayman

Diane Hart

Ada Shore

Robert Urquhart

Sheltie

Edward Lexy

Lord Carshennie

Jacqueline Mackenzie

Nellie Kelly

Eric Woodburn

The Bedellus

Molly Urquhart

Lady Duffy

Ronnie Corbett

Maither

Reginald Beckwith

Radio reporter

Russell Waters

Professor Baikie

Wendy Noel

Miss Mear

Roddy McMillan

Milligan

Alastair Hunter

Desk Sergeant

Andrew Downie

Student

Archie Duncan

Police Constable

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DanDare

Rating 30%

September 17, 2017

A woman (Diane Hart) visiting a Scottish University looking for her uncle is mistaken as the new secretary. The students at the college are taking part in drunken revelries which annoys the college Dean. The new secretary takes an interest in college affairs and smooths things over when the Dean expels a student for the drunken partying. She also finds her uncle who really is a poet pretending to be a caretaker and also runs a bar on the side. Charles Hawtrey plays the Dean's pompous son who gets involved with the students partying. Ronnie Corbett has a small early role. Not much plot to the film and it is all rather shaky and unsatisfying.