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Writers:
Frank Launder (original story) &
Sidney Gilliat (original story) ...
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Release Date:
4 April 1966 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Family 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
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NewsDesk:
Watch This: 'St Trinian's' Girls Run Amok
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Cast

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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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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Singapore:PG | Australia:G | UK:U
Filming Locations:
Longmoor military railway, Longmoor Military Camp, Hampshire, England, UK more
Company:
Braywild more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The last feature film of Cyril Chamberlain. more
Goofs:
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
Movie Connections:
Follows The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960) more

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Updating The Series Hasn't Improved It, 14 January 2005
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Author: Theo Robertson from Isle Of Bute, Scotland

In my review of PURE HELL OF ST TRINIANS I mentioned that the comedy is very much dated when watched today . I guess the idea with THE GREAT ST TRINIANS TRAIN ROBBERY was to update it to the 1960s : It references the great train robbery of 1964 ( Interesting to note the connection with THUNDERBALL ) , it mentions " a new Labour government correcting the mismangement of 13 years of Tory misrule " and the movie is shot in colour with a new title tune . However despite these attempts to make it accessible to a cinema audience in 1966 ( Who would have gone to the cinema to watch a black and white movie ? ) this film suffers from the other failings of the series - it's badly plotted with characters and situations coming and going with little focus . like the other movies featuring the pupils from hell there is little screen time given to the eponymous girl pupils who seem to be there as a plot device more than anything else and even in 1966 native audiences would have probably found the parochial humour too British when compared to American financed Brit productions like DR NO , ZULU and ALFIE thereby dating this movie as soon as it came out

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