Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
New Zealand ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1957 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Frank Launder

Written By:
Frank Launder
Sidney Gilliat

Actors:
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 ..... Liftman

Synopsis:

Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy. Because the girls cannot behave themselves, their headmistress (Alastair Sim in drag!) has been thrown in jail, and the school is surrounded by police and army troops. The students escape their durance vile by winning an all-expense-paid trip to Europe (by cheating, of course). While laying waste to the Continent (with Terry-Thomas driving the bus), the girls are enmeshed in a diamond theft instigated by the father (George Cole) of one of the students. The film ends with an elongated water polo game, played with the ladies' usual sense of sportsmanship and fair play. In the 1950s and 1960s, the "St. Trinians" series was as popular a British movie attraction as the "Carry On" films--but unlike "Carry On", they don't play quite as well with American audiences.

To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to win a competition with a European 'Goodwill' trip as prize, to the horror of the Ministry of Education. Joe Mangan, father of a sixth former and hiding out at the school after a Hatton Garden diamond robbery, is persuaded to travel with the girls as their new headmistress, leaving the real one trussed up in the belfry. At least her arrival had allowed the remains of the Army unit sent in to keep order to evacuate.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 10 September, 2006.

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