The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)

Directed by

Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

U

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gang of criminals hides stolen money in a building that turns out to be St Trinian's School. The unruly schoolgirls and staff then get mixed up in the chase and craziness to recover the loot.

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What happens

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a 1966 British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat and starring a selection of actors from previous films in the series, including George Cole, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Michael Ripper, and Raymond Huntley, alongside Frankie Howerd, Reg Varney, Dora Bryan, and the voice of Stratford Johns. It was written by Launder and Ivor Herbert from an original story by Launder, Gilliat and Leslie Gilliat. It is the last of the original series of films based on the St Trinian's School set of images and comics, and the only one to be produced in colour. The film's story focuses on St Trinian's becoming caught up in a train robbery, after the gang who conducted it attempts to reclaim their loot from the building that the pupils and teachers now inhabit. The story is inspired by the actual Great Train Robbery that took place in 1963, and includes numerous parodies of the technocratic ideas of the Harold Wilson government and its support of the comprehensive school system, and spoof elements based upon those from the James Bond spy films of the Sixties. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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