- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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3 out of 5
Most people's memory of the St Trinian's films dates from their own youth, when the wonderful indiscipline of the tearaways and the debauched indifference of the staff had them longing for their own school to be run along similar lines. In 1954 nothing had ever been seen to compare with this anarchic adaptation of Ronald Searle's cartoons, which turned the traditional idea of female gentility on its head. Alastair Sim's Miss Fritton and George Cole's Flash Harry became icons of British comic lore, but the real star of a film in which the humour now seems cosy rather than chaotic is Joyce Grenfell as the delightfully dippy Sergeant Gates.
Plot Summary
Comedy starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole. Using their educational establishment as a front, the outrageous schoolgirls of St Trinian's get mixed up in a plot to steal a racehorse.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Millicent Fritton / Clarence Fritton
- Alastair Sim
- Sergeant Ruby Gates
- Joyce Grenfell
- Flash Harry
- George Cole
- Arabella
- Vivienne Martin
- Sultan of Makyad
- Eric Pohlmann
- Princess Fatima
- Lorna Henderson
- Miss Drownder
- Hermione Baddeley
- Miss Waters
- Betty Ann Davies
- Miss Brimmer
- Renee Houston
- Miss Wilson
- Beryl Reid
- Miss Dawn
- Joan Sims
Crew
- Director
- Frank Launder
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