To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to win a competition with a European "Goodwill" trip as prize, to the horror of the Ministry...
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Title: Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
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| Terry-Thomas | ... | Capt. Romney Carlton-Ricketts (as Terry Thomas) | |
| George Cole | ... | 'Flash' Harry | |
| Joyce Grenfell | ... | Sgt. Ruby Gates | |
| Alastair Sim | ... | Miss Amelia Fritton | |
| Sabrina | ... | Virginia | |
| Lionel Jeffries | ... | Joe Mangan | |
| Lloyd Lamble | ... | Superintendent Samuel Kemp-Bird | |
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Raymond Rollett | ... | Chief Constable |
| Terry Scott | ... | Police Sergeant | |
| Ferdy Mayne | ... | Italian Police Inspector | |
| Thorley Walters | ... | Major | |
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Cyril Chamberlain | ... | Captain |
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Ronald Ibbs | ... | Lieutenant |
| Judith Furse | ... | Dame Maud Hackshaw | |
| Michael Ripper | ... | Eric - The Liftman | |
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To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to win a competition with a European "Goodwill" trip as prize, to the horror of the Ministry of Education. Joe Mangan, father of a sixth former and hiding out at the school after a Hatton Garden diamond robbery, is persuaded to travel with the girls as their new headmistress, leaving the real one trussed up in the belfry. At least her arrival had allowed the remains of the Army unit sent in to keep order to evacuate. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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December 1957 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts: What sort of case?
Sergeant Ruby Gates: Must I tell you?
Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts: I should jolly well think you should! You give me all that guff about being an interpreter, lead me up the garden path...
Sergeant Ruby Gates: Oh, please don't talk to me like that, Romney! I'm such a crazy, mixed-up policewoman!
Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts: Well, how do you think I feel? One second we're swapping sweet nothings to a Neapolitan love song, and the next moment we're up to our nostrils in Agatha Christie. A chap doesn't know where he stands!
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Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Arranged by Malcolm Arnold
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Ruby Gates and Samuel Kemp-Bird were engaged in 1943. See more »Goofs
The first shot of the tow-rope between the buses shows two pieces of cloth/ flags attached to it. Subsequent shots show only one piece of cloth. See more »Quotes
Sergeant Ruby Gates: You see, I'm here on a special caseCaptain Romney Carlton-Ricketts: What sort of case?
Sergeant Ruby Gates: Must I tell you?
Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts: I should jolly well think you should! You give me all that guff about being an interpreter, lead me up the garden path...
Sergeant Ruby Gates: Oh, please don't talk to me like that, Romney! I'm such a crazy, mixed-up policewoman!
Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts: Well, how do you think I feel? One second we're swapping sweet nothings to a Neapolitan love song, and the next moment we're up to our nostrils in Agatha Christie. A chap doesn't know where he stands!
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Wedding March(uncredited)
Music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Arranged by Malcolm Arnold
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In the days before political correctness reared its ugly head, boys were boys and girls and girls, and ne'er the twain should meet - except for St. Trinian's where small girls were boys, at least in their behaviour, and large girls were rather pretty, in Sabrina's case voluptuous. The main characters were all well drawn with a splendid supporting cast and all very British. Alastair Sim was perfect as the headmistress, George Cole was the Cockney geezer, Joyce Grenfell the ever spurned policewoman while Eric Barker as Culpepper Brown and Richard Wattis as Bassett were truly superb archetypal education ministers. As for Terry-Thomas - well? Even a coach driver could be posh in those days! Stiff upper lip what, even with St. Trinian's on board. All good clean fun which had family audiences flocking to the local cinema. What a pity they don't show films like this any more on television because they beat the modern rubbish hollow for entertainment value.