It was one of the best comedies of that era. In fact, a German in the English country after a fierce world war, where the Gentlemanly English Students want to pull the legs of the German student (played by Hardy Kruger) who tackles them all by returning all their tantrums in kind. So much so, with all their attempts to demoralize the German, the British students fail in creating bickerings but on the contrary the German wins the hearts of all.
it is one of the best films, should not be mistaken for a slapstick comedy. Though the veneer is comic, it has classic undertones. The Cambridge professors tell him that what the teach in the classrooms in Cambridge is taught as well in Bonn or Stuttgart or any university elsewhere; but Cambridge's specialty is to prepare the student to face the life ahead successfully!
And walk away not merely with the Cambridge degree, and the diva of the Cambridge of that period, Sylvia Syms, but with the wondrous appreciation of all his classroom rivals. As the Title trumpets! An unforgettable classic movie!
s.r.krishna murthy.