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Title: YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG TWICE

Reference number: 3611

Date: 1952

Director: d. Terry Bishop

Production company: Group 3

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 80.30 mins

Description: Comedy about the arrival of a new lord rector at Skerryvore University. The Lord Rector turns out to be a beautiful young woman, Ada Shore. [Synopsis from British Film Institute catalogue]

Credits: exec. p. John Grierson
p. controller John Baxter
From the play 'What Say They?' by James Bridie.
cast Duncan Macrae, Joseph Tomelty, Charles Hawtry, Patrick Barr, Diane Hart, Robert Urquhart, Edward Lexy, Jacqueline MacKenzie, Reginald Beckwith, Russell Waters, Ronald Corbett, Wendy Noel, Eric Woodburn, Molly Urquhart, Roddy MacMillan, Alistair Hunter, Andrew Downie, Archie Duncan and students of the College of Dramatic Art, Glasgow
adapt. Lindsay Galloway
screenplay Reginald Beckwith, Lindsay Galloway, Terry Bishop
composer Cedric Thorpe Davie
cond. Muir Mathieson
ph. Jo Jago
a.d. Ray Simm
sd supervisor George Burgess
p. man. Bill Kirby
camera operator Arthur Graham
sd. rec. Len Page
ass. d. Jack Causey
p. ass. Bob Jones
continuity Vega Stewart, Barbara Cole
make-up Jimmy Evans
wardrobe Amy Binney
technical advisor J. F. Arnott
ed. Bernard Gribble
assoc. p. Barbara K. Emary
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.
An A.B.F.D. release
Made at Southall Studios

Shotlist: Reel One
credits (1.28) c/u radio, camera pans campus of fictional University of Skerryvore (Glasgow University). Students marching Kelvin Way as new Lord Rector arrives.Various shenanigans and misunderstandings with the new rector, University Senate and students as the University establishment attempts to discover 'goings-on' in the nearby 'Plough and Stars' cafe (37.32)(1351ft)

Reel Two
Dance in honour of new Lord Rector. Charles Hawtrey character - Adolphus Hayman (son of iron-fisted dean) - gets drunk on ethyl alcohol in chemistry class and determines to discover what is going on behind the plush curtain in the cafe - covert dance hall for students. Fight begins, police raid establishment - big rammy. Adolphus Hayman proceeds to lead a student protest. Turns out lowly University porter is a Nobel Laureate Irish poet and he is eventually nominated for Lord Rector to the delight of the student congregation and comeuppance of current dean (43.10) The End (43.20) (1560ft)