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Belles of St. Trinian's, The (1954) Rank 3 Reviews
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In this and the sequel movies ...
by Dr. Geo. J. Leona... on January 09, 2000
My kid and my brother's kids watch this masterpiece about once every two months! So many levels of wit neither parents nor kids ever catch all the jokes, and Alastair Sim (Scrooge in the great black and white Christmas Carol) in drag, playing an Evil ...
by sxbenm@maila.wm.e... on April 03, 1999
Alistair Sim plays the headmistress of a girls school and her bookie brother. The school gets investigated by a dowdy investigator posing as a teacher. I'll say no more about the plot, but will mention that it involves a field hockey game where the ...
by Jim O'Brien "Jame... on December 29, 2004
"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 ...
by Mark Newbold on November 12, 2002
Before the Goon show and Monty Python there was the Trinian series. Examples of innovative British comedy. Some of the later Trinian films are real stinkers. This is the original and it is simply one of the funniest films ever made-period. If you ...
by C. O. DeRiemer on October 03, 2006
Choose your ...
by Zack Davisson "Al... on May 18, 2004
"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 ...
by Joe Sixpack -- S... on May 29, 2003
Alastair Sim reprises, after a fashion, his barmy schoolmaster role from the 1950 film, "The Happiest Days Of Your Life," only this time he's playing Margaret Rutheford's character, performing in drag as Miss Fritton, a dotty headmistress whose belief in ...
by falcornik@earthli... on May 07, 1999
This is one of my favoite 50's English comedies.Alistair Sim's dual roles are the stuff of ...
by Donna D. Hall "Do... on October 24, 2008
We enjoyed this movie once we were able to transfer the tape to another tape. It arrived broken. ...
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