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Directors:
Writers:
Frank Launder (original story) &
Sidney Gilliat (original story) ...
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Release Date:
4 April 1966 (UK) more
Plot:
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school. | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Watch This: 'St Trinian's' Girls Run Amok
(From Cinematical. 1 July 2009, 1:02 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
For years I believed that St. Trinian's was a REAL school !! more (9 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Frankie Howerd | ... | Alphonse of Monte Carlo / Alfred Askett | |
| Dora Bryan | ... | Amber Spottiswood | |
| George Cole | ... | 'Flash' Harry | |
| Reg Varney | ... | Gilbert | |
| Raymond Huntley | ... | Sir Horace, the Minister | |
| Richard Wattis | ... | Manton Bassett | |
| Portland Mason | ... | Georgina | |
| Terry Scott | ... | Policeman | |
| Eric Barker | ... | Culpepper Brown | |
| Godfrey Winn | ... | Truelove | |
| Colin Gordon | ... | Noakes | |
| Desmond Walter-Ellis | ... | Leonard Edwards (as Desmond Walter Ellis) | |
| Arthur Mullard | ... | Big Jim | |
| Norman Mitchell | ... | William (Willy the Jelly-Man) | |
| Cyril Chamberlain | ... | Maxie |
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93 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Longmoor military railway, Longmoor Military Camp, Hampshire, England, UK more
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The part of Butters was first offered to Thorley Walters, who played to role in The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960) more
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Factual errors: When Harry is in the signal box to stop the robber's train he pulls a lever back toward him and we then see the signal drop to danger. After the girls have uncoupled the wagon, he pushes the lever forward again and the signal returns to clear. These actions are the wrong way round. Signal levers are pulled back to raise the signal to clear, pushed forward again to return to danger. more
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Follows The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960) more
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As youngsters, there are certain things that we all believe in. Father Christmas. The Easter Bunny. The Tooth Fairy. Not me, though. I was different - I believed in St. Trinian's school. I was convinced in fact until I was at least twenty that this school was actually a real place. I'm not a stupid person by any means, so it must have been because I wanted such a place to exist that I spent most of my time in the library browsing phone directories in a fruitless effort to discover exactly where it was. I thought I had it narrowed down to the Home Counties somewhere in Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire, and was quite prepared to try and visit the place in person and leer at all those sixth-form schoolgirls in their gym-slips, stockings and suspenders. The best day of my life was probably when we had a fancy dress day at school and a couple of my female class-mates turned up in a replica uniform, and boy, did they look good! I'm not sure what the teachers thought, because they were only about thirteen I should think, and they definitely were wearing the stockings and suspenders!
These days of course the politically correct brigade would do all they can to prevent young girls dressing like this (even though it was all in good fun and for charity) and these films are often treated in the same way by many reviewers - with scorn and ridicule. The "girls" in the film who are wearing the full "sixth form" stockings and suspenders style uniform are of course well over the age of sixteen and into adulthood, though that doesn't stop some people wondering that maybe films like this encourage paedophilia and turning young girls into sex objects. Maybe there are some dangerous people out there who get a hard-on over uniforms and schoolgirls by watching this film, but I would hope that most, like me, were schoolboys themselves when they first saw this film, and that kind of makes it alright. It's all a bit of harmless fun, and like the "Carry On" films and other more politically incorrect 'stockings and suspenders' stuff where women are shown as sex objects first and characters after (Vicki Michele from "Allo Allo" is a good example), it's true to say they don't make stuff like this any more.
St. Trinian's itself, the brainchild of artist Ronald Searle (as I later discovered!), is seen here for the first time in colour. This, "The Great Train Robbery", is the fourth in the series. A little-known and less-often seen fifth film from 1980 is "The Wildcats of St. Trinian's". As is usual with long-running franchises such as this, the quality does tale of noticeably with each instalment. This film, though not in the same league as the first "Belles of St. Trinians" in 1954, comes across as "Citizen Kane" in comparison to the very weak "Wildcats" entry in 1980. The main advantage this has over the first three is probably the fact that it is in colour.
Unlike most people, I happen to think that St. Trinians rocks. I always have done. I wanted to go to school there. I still do. Words cannot describe how disappointed I was when I found out it didn't really exist. In this day and age of political correctness, it probably never will again - and that's a bit sad. 7/10