The WILDCATS of ST. TRINIAN'S (Sheila Hancock, Michael Hordern)

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A couple of actors return to the fold, perhaps out of loyalty to Frank Launder. Thorley Walters appears in his third St. Trinian's film, playing his third different character in the series.Walters played an army officer in the second film and a civil servant in the third. He gets promoted to a more senior role this time, although this is in the Department of Women's Education rather than the Ministry of Education of the earlier films. He is also given a different character name, Culpepper Brown, a character played by Eric Barker in the previous three films. You both really are taking the piss now and trolling. That photo with the group of St Trinians girls was in the film and I will even post a clip as proof. As for the age of the sixth form girls on the original films, quite a few were born in the 1920s and early 1930s which would of made them in their early 20s at least. Dilys Laye was born 1934 which would of made her 23 on Blue Murder of St Trinians in 1957 Rosalind Knight was born 1933 which would of made her 24. Another sixth form actress from the same St Trinains film was Patricia Lawrence who was born in 1925 which would of made her 32 years of age. So get your facts right and if you don't believe me then look up Blue Murder at St Trinians on IMDB and stop acting like idiots. BTW when I used the word "posing" I meant they were posing in the film.

In 1990, Chris Claremont and Ron Wagner paid tribute to both Searle and St Trinian's in a story arc in the Marvel comic book Excalibur, in which Kitty Pryde became a student at "St Searle's School for Young Ladies". [15] Towards the end of the arc, Commandere Dai Thomas exclaims, "I took a look at the Special Branch records. Have you any notion what this school's done in the past? With them about, who needs the perishing SAS?" [16] This movie starts out with a group of younger "fourth-form" girls from the titular "St. Trinian's" girls' school singing a surly rendition of their school song, which is strangely intercut with shots of the more mature "sixth-form" girls doing a sexy dance in unfeasibly short skirts. This strange opening scene is very typical of the strange movie to follow. Not being British, I'm not really familiar with the earlier 50's and 60's "St. Trinian's" films. I know they featured rebellious, cigarette-smoking, working-glass schoolgirls and were not quite as innocuous and family-friendly as something like "The Trouble with Angels". Still they really couldn't have hoped to compete with the saucy, sex-obsessed fare that dominated home-grown British cinema by 1980, and they really shouldn't have tried to. Hop well bunny buddy and spread you words like talcum scattered from a very high balcony falling and spreading wisdom on fools below. The St Trinian's girls themselves come in two categories: the Fourth Form, most closely resembling Searle's original drawings of ink-stained, ungovernable pranksters, and the much older Sixth Form, sexually precocious to a degree that may have seemed alarming to some in 1954. [ citation needed]

In truth, there was only one genuinely funny entry – The Belles of St Trinian’s(1954) – in the five-film series, with each subsequent instalment failing more dismally than the last to match the comic anarchy of the original movie. Please everyone leave Bunster alone.He's obviously very nice man with big town concerns for all and likes to protect innocents with big fluffy embrace I, myself was going to be involved in the filming, script and music while Fiona was going to be involved with casting the girls, doing the makeup and providing the outfits. Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980) Cheech (Cheech Marin) and Chong (Tommy Chong) live in a decrepit old house and drive their neighbour crazy with their…

The musical score for the St Trinian films was written by Malcolm Arnold and included the school song, with words accredited to Sidney Gilliat (1954). [13] In the 2007 film, a new school song, written by Girls Aloud, was called "Defenders of Anarchy". The school also has a fight song. My St Trinians film was going to be a project for a video production course I did at college in 2001 and I mentioned it on this forum at the time. Barchester and Barset were used as names for the fictional towns near which St Trinian's School was supposedly located in the original films. In Blue Murder at St Trinian's, a signpost was marked as 2 miles to Barset, 8 miles to Wantage, indicating a location in what was Berkshire at the time of filming (transferred to Oxfordshire in 1974}. Joe Melia's Harry is noticeably different from the George Cole version. Melia's Harry is more rough and ready than Cole's and seemingly without his version's shady schemes. He is simultaneously a bolshie trade unionist and, perhaps improbably, a small business owner. Even more improbably, that business is a Chinese restaurant where Melia puts on a funny voice and pretends to be Chinese.This time the St. Trinian's girls decide to form a union, so that they can go on strike. To increase their bargaining power, their partner in crime, former school boot boy Harry (Joe Melia), encourages them to infiltrate the top schools in the country, so that they can form a "closed shop" and bring all of the other schools out on strike as well. Launder wanted to follow the film with an adaptation of the books by Norman Thelwell about a pony school. He almost made it in Norway in the late 1970s and in 1979 planned on making it in Britain the following year. [4] However no movie resulted. The St. Trinian's girls begin to infiltrate other schools by kidnapping pupils and replacing them with one of their own. But one girl they kidnap is a princess, the daughter of the ruler of an oil-rich Middle Eastern state, something that threatens a diplomatic incident.

I would say the only actress shown that is wearing what she wore in the film was the little punk lady. A poem in one of Searle's books called "St Trinian's Soccer Song", by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Johnny Dankworth, states that the motto is Floreat St Trinian's ("May St Trinian's Bloom/Flourish"), [12] a reference to the motto of Eton ( Floreat Etona—"May Eton Flourish"). Webb, Kaye, ed. (1959). The St Trinian's Story. London; New York (respectively): Perpetua Books; London House & Maxwell. pp.44–45. OCLC 2898524. Joe Melia replaces George Cole as Flash Harry, Cole having wisely decided to pass on this one. George Cole had just taken on his most famous role, as Arthur Daley in the long running TV series Minder, and so probably thought that he didn't need to do this kind of thing anymore. In his autobiography, Cole says that he was offered the part, but couldn't accept due to other commitments. How very convenient. He must have read the script.The plot of Wildcats is lame and nonsensical and the film itself seems to be very aware of this. As one of the St. Trinian's girls says, why do they need to go on strike when they don't do any work anyway? The dismal plot might be excusable if the film was funny, but there's barely a joke to be seen, and those that did somehow manage to escape into Frank Launder's script are pretty ancient. The Terror of St Trinians or Angela's Prince Charming (1952; text by Timothy Shy, pen-name for D. B. Wyndham Lewis) Pupils of the infamous St Trinian’s establish the first branch of the ‘Union of British Schoolgirls’, then kidnap the daughter of a wealthy Arab prince (played by future Eurovision non-winner Frances Ruffelle) in an attempt at gaining recognition. The film pokes fun at the British trade union movement which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the Winter of Discontent.