Cast
- Alastair Sim as Headmistress Millicent Fritton / Clarence Fritton
- Joyce Grenfell as Sergeant Ruby Gates
- George Cole as Flash Harry
- Hermione Baddeley as Miss Drownder
- Betty Ann Davies as Miss Waters
- Renee Houston as Miss Brimmer
- Beryl Reid as Miss Wilson
- Irene Handl as Miss Gale
- Mary Merrall as Miss Buckland
- Joan Sims as Miss Dawn
- Balbina as Mlle de St. Emilion
- Jane Henderson as Miss Holland
- Diana Day as Jackie
- Jill Braidwood as Florrie
- Annabelle Covey as Maudie
- Pauline Drewett as Celia
- Jean Langston as Rosie
- Lloyd Lamble as Superintendent Kemp Bird, boyfriend of Ruby Gates
- Richard Wattis as Manton Bassett, civil servant in the Ministry of Education
- Guy Middleton as Eric Rowbottom-Smith, a ministry inspector, now a teacher at the school
- Arthur Howard as Wilfred Woodley, another ministry inspector, also now a teacher
- Michael Ripper as Albert Faning
- Eric Pohlmann as The Sultan of Makyad
- Sid James as Benny, one of Clarence Fritton's racing associates
- Martin Walker as Hankinson
- Noel Hood as Bilston School Mistress
- Vivienne Martin as Arabella
- Elizabeth Griffiths as Gladys
- Andrée Melly as Lucretia
- Belinda Lee as Amanda
- Michael Kelly as Bill
- Tommy Duggan as Joe
- Paul Connell as Sam
- Lorna Henderson as Fatima
- Vivien Wood as Miss Anderson (as Vivienne Wood)
- Cara Stevens as Sultan's Secretary
- Jerry Verno as Alf, the bookmaker
- Jack Doyle as Assistant Trainer
- Windsor Cottage as the Horse "Arab Boy"
Ronald Searle appeared in a cameo role as a visiting parent. Roger Delgado plays the Sultan's aide. It was also the first film appearance for a 17 year-old Barbara Windsor.
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