This film begins with the school burning down and there is a trial for arson against the girls (all of them!).
I first saw this at the original Odeon Marble Arch nearly 60 years ago.Whilst likeable this film is not a patch on the original.
There are some gems of comedy here which for its time stand out... the civil servants dancing around the office, sitting in a boat with only six months of food...
THE PURE HELL OF ST. TRINIAN'S is the third of the initial four films, coming hot on the wake of the very good BLUE MURDER AT ST.
Did anyone notice a very young David Jason playing the part of a paparazzi behind sand bags. In view for about 10 seconds.
I can't claim to be an expert on THE ST TRINIAN series . I have some vague notion that it's about some hellcat girl pupils which in today's political climate would probably never been considered as a film seriesStrangely enough the film starts with a liberal agenda after the pupils have burnt down their school and are shown compassion , but at this point the film deviates from what you'd expect .
This, the third 'St. Trinian's' film, opens with the school being burnt to the ground; this leads to all the pupils being put on trial.
A dismal film which now looks crude and racist.The girls of St Trinian's think it is spiffing to burn their school down and even change the hose of the fire engine to a petrol, tanker.
This, I venture to suggest, will make virtually no sense at all to any folks who live in parts of the world without public schools... For those of us who do, however, it is a gentle comedy that parodies some of Britain's most exclusive education establishments with it's tongue very firmly planted in it's cheek!
