Rating: - A fun vintage movie.
We enjoyed this movie once we were able to transfer the tape to another tape. It arrived broken.
Rating: - Terrible tykes, gin and horses, and the great Alastair Sim as Millicent Fritton, headmistress at St. Trinian's
Choose your fate: The terrible tykes of the fourth form, playing practical jokes that involve axes, or the...ummm...well-developed girls of the sixth form, who discovered some time ago cigarettes, gin, sex and how easily men can be led astray. The problem is that one set comes with the other. They are all there at St. Trinian's, that remarkably easy-going English school for girls led by headmistress Millicent Fritton (Alastair Sim). As Miss Fritton is fond of pointing out, "In other schools girls are sent out quite unprepared into a merciless world, but when our girls leave here, it is the merciless world which has to be prepared." Miss Fritton sounds something like a melding of Julia Child and Eleanor Roosevelt, and definitely has Sim's droll and deadpan comic genes.
In The Belles of St. Trinian's, a sly, chaotic comedy from the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, St. Trinian's is, as usual, on ... Read More
Rating: - Funny Movie
"The Belles of St. Trinians" is a movie that is worth your while to dig up and watch. It's been about 50 years since it was made, and it's still funny. The humor (one should know) comes from gags about alcoholic beverages, gambling, dishonesty, and well, more dishonesty ... all involving a private girls school in England.
The girls are sharp operators ... clever little imps with an infectious enthusiasum for playing pranks. Even the head mistress of the school is fair game.
This lady, Millicent Fritton, is played by the very excellent (and very male) British actor Alastair Sim. He does double duty by also playing "Millie's" evil brother Clarence. He (Alistair Sim) does a great job playing Millie ... carrying it off with quite a flair ... as "she" outwits not only her brother, the ministry of education, the police, and the school's instructors, but even the girls themselves.
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Rating: - Wild schoolgirl hijinks
"The Belles of St. Trinians" is an old-fashioned wacky school comedy, full of wild kids and clueless adults. Set in an English private school, the girls of St. Trinians might just have been the first to establish this familiar film genre.
The girls are VERY wild, sometimes shockingly so, brewing up gin in chemistry class and then selling it through a local bootlegger, Flash Harry, or winning field hockey games by putting the opposing team and the referee in the hospital by whacking them with their hockey sticks. In light of current "PC" times, kids in films just aren't this wild anymore. Plenty of the humor just comes from seeing these kids in action.
Alistair Sim does good service in his double role as the corrupt Clarence and his twin sister, the optimistic yet still slightly corrupt Mrs. Fritton. The other adults in this film range from clueless to incompetent, such as the Board ... Read More
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- A fun vintage movie.
- Terrible tykes, gin and horses, and the great Alastair Sim as Millicent Fritton, headmistress at St. Trinian's
- Funny Movie
