18.8.10

the great st. trinians train robbery (1966)


"Well it's always nice to have your R's to fall back on I always say."
Alphonse of Monte Carlo (Frankie Howerd) is the leader of a gang of mail train robbers. They manage to get away with two and a half million pounds, stashed in an empty stately home. A stately home that ends up as the new home of St. Trinian's. hidden in their school and their new headmistress Amber Spottiswood (Dora Bryan). Finding they cannot access their loot, they hatch the plan to plant Alphonse's two kids in the school to get the cash for them. Then Flash Harry (George Cole) gets wind of the stash and hatches a plan with the forth form to get their hands on it.
The forth film in the series and the first in colour. It doesn't disappoint, with some great characterisation adding to the mayhem and comedy.

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