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Director:
Frank Launder
Writers:
Sidney Gilliat (writer)
Frank Launder (writer)
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Release Date:
December 1957 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
not as good as The Belles of ..., but diverting more (8 total)

Cast

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Terry-Thomas ... Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts (as Terry Thomas)
George Cole ... 'Flash' Harry
Joyce Grenfell ... Sergeant Ruby Gates
Alastair Sim ... Miss Amelia Fritton
Sabrina ... Virginia
Lionel Jeffries ... Joe Mangan
Lloyd Lamble ... Superintendent Samuel Kemp-Bird
Raymond Rollett ... Chief Constable
Terry Scott ... Police sergeant
Ferdy Mayne ... Italian police inspector
Thorley Walters ... Major
Cyril Chamberlain ... Captain
Ronald Ibbs ... Lieutenant
Judith Furse ... Dame Maud Hackshaw
Michael Ripper ... Eric - the liftman
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Runtime:
86 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Singapore:PG | Australia:G | Finland:S | UK:U
Filming Locations:
Oakley Court, Windsor Road, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK more
Company:
John Harvel Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The plot device of the Italian Prince Bruno and his possible marriage to an American starlet echoes the wedding of Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly the previous year. more
Goofs:
Plot holes: When the buses leave St Trinian's, the leading bus knocks down the arch over the gateway. It can hardly have come in this way without knocking it down. Nor is it likely to have increased in height as it leaves laden with the girls and their equipment. more
Movie Connections:
Follows The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) more

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not as good as The Belles of ..., but diverting, 14 May 2007
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Author: didi-5 from United Kingdom

'The Belles of St Trinian's' was a hard act to follow, so it isn't surprising that this film doesn't even try. Apart from brief top and tail appearances of Alistair Sim as Miss Fritton, it is left to character actor Lionel Jeffries to take the mantle and lead the girls into glory, i.e. into George Cole's marriage bureau seeking to find a mate for a foreign prince in Rome.

Familiar faces are back - Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis - alongside Terry-Thomas, Terry Scott, Kenneth Griffith, and other big names of the 1950s comedy scene. The girls are as riotous as ever, and there is a nice turn from Judith Furze as Dame Maud, the unfortunate replacement head of the worst girls' school in the world! 'Blue Murder at St Trinian's' flags at times, but some bits are extremely funny, and one can sympathise with the Ministry of Education and their need for calming pills!

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