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Director:
Frank Launder
Writers:
Sidney Gilliat (writer)
Frank Launder (writer)
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Release Date:
December 1960 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
The hellions of St. Trinians are recruited to a sheik's harem. Little does he know what he's letting himself in for. full summary | add synopsis
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Starts well but doesn't sustain it more (8 total)

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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Singapore:PG | Australia:G | UK:U

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Shirley Anne Field and Judy Cornwell auditioned for schoolgirl parts. more
Movie Connections:
Followed by St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) more

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Starts well but doesn't sustain it, 7 December 2003
Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK

When the school is burnt to the ground, all the girls find themselves in the dock. However the judge decides mercy and takes up the offer of one Professor Canford to open a new school with a backer and try to change the girls. The backer, Alphonse O'Reilly, takes the whole school on a trip to Europe, but Flash Harry finds that the ship is actually on it's way to Africa, where Alphonse plans to sell the older girls into harems!

This entry in the series starts really well. Not only does it have what I consider to be a great line (`there's always trouble when there's arson around') but the courtroom stuff is very funny. The rest of the film from there starts to tail off, the continuation of the film sees the old characters come back in (mostly) are this is good. However once the action moves to Africa etc it all becomes a little silly but doesn't manage to be fun for it.

The action gets more frantic and less amusing as it goes along and, by the end of the whole thing, I'd pretty much lost interest in it. The cast are reasonably good. The girls are in two camps – the young thugs and the sexy `girls' (albeit it they are happily in their 20's). The support cast includes good performances from George Cole (complete with cheeky chappy music in case you didn't get it). Parker and Grenfell are OK but their stuff on the island doesn't really wash. Barker and Walters are fine, as is a cameo from Le Mesurier, but Sid James is pretty wasted.

Overall this is worth seeing if you like the series (although it fades throughout the 90 minutes), but there are better films in the series if you're just coming in now.

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