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G The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)

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Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, Reg Varney, Raymond Huntley, George Cole

Synopsis:

Train robbers use the school to hide their loot; meanwhile the Headmistress has financial worries of her own...

Review:

By now the writing is very tired indeed, the handling is sub-Mack Sennett standard, with a protracted train chase at the end which fails to make much sense, and the girls themselves hardly get a look-in, a mere primal force to be wielded when the plot occasions - like Frankenstein's monster in the later Universal instalments. In short, the golden age of British comedy is decidedly over, the film lying qualitatively and temporally between the early Carry-Ons and On the Buses.

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Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, Reg Varney, Raymond Huntley, George Cole

Synopsis:

Train robbers use the school to hide their loot; meanwhile the Headmistress has financial worries of her own...

Review:

By now the writing is very tired indeed, the handling is sub-Mack Sennett standard, with a protracted train chase at the end which fails to make much sense, and the girls themselves hardly get a look-in, a mere primal force to be wielded when the plot occasions - like Frankenstein's monster in the later Universal instalments. In short, the golden age of British comedy is decidedly over, the film lying qualitatively and temporally between the early Carry-Ons and On the Buses.


Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, Reg Varney, Raymond Huntley, George Cole

Synopsis:

Train robbers use the school to hide their loot; meanwhile the Headmistress has financial worries of her own...

Review:

By now the writing is very tired indeed, the handling is sub-Mack Sennett standard, with a protracted train chase at the end which fails to make much sense, and the girls themselves hardly get a look-in, a mere primal force to be wielded when the plot occasions - like Frankenstein's monster in the later Universal instalments. In short, the golden age of British comedy is decidedly over, the film lying qualitatively and temporally between the early Carry-Ons and On the Buses.

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