The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Frankie Howerd
Alphonse of Monte Carlo / Alfred Askett
Dora Bryan
Amber Spottiswood
George Cole
'Flash' Harry
Reg Varney
Gilbert
Raymond Huntley
Sir Horace, the Minister
Richard Wattis
Manton Bassett
Portland Mason
Georgina
Terry Scott
Policeman
Eric Barker
Culpepper Brown
Godfrey Winn
Truelove
Colin Gordon
Noakes
Desmond Walter-Ellis
Leonard Edwards
Arthur Mullard
Big Jim
Norman Mitchell
William
Cyril Chamberlain
Maxie
Larry Martyn
Chips
Leon Thau
Pakistani Porter
Elspeth Duxbury
Veronica Bledlow
Stratford Johns
The Voice (voice)
Ingrid Boulting
Schoolgirl
Frank Launder
Director / Writer
Sidney Gilliat
Director / Writer
Leslie Gilliat
Writer / Producer
Ivor Herbert
Writer
Malcolm Arnold
Original Music Composer
Ken Hodges
Director of Photography
Vicki Deason
Production Secretary
Barbara Hopkins
Sound
Geoffrey Foot
Editor
Carole Ann Ford
Jeremy Clyde
Meredith Edwards
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 11, 1966
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
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This Movie Is About.
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, written by Sidney and Leslie Gilliat, and released on 4 April 1966. 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 stars 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.
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 students and teachers now inhabit. The story itself is based on 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.