St Trinian's
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The original movie of the anarchic St Trinian's schoolgirls came out more than 50 years ago in 1954.
In black-and-white, The Belles of St. Trinian's starred the likes of British stars Alastair Sim (in dual roles of the headmistress and her dastardly brother), Joyce Grenfell, George Cole as Flash Harry and the first lady of Carry On films Joan Sims.
Barbara Windsor was also in there somewhere as one of the gels.
In the modern version, the cross-dressing dual role is ably taken up by the under-rated Rupert Everett, who plays both school principal Camilla Fritton and her art-dealing brother Carnaby with aplomb.
So well, in fact that I had to point out to my niece that both characters were played by the same man.
The newest pupil at St Trinian's is Carnaby's meek daughter Annabelle Fritton (Talulah Riley) who is terrified by the anarchic out-of-control girls at her new boarding school.
Headgirl Kelly (Gemma Arterton) explains the different tribes to her - the emos (who would have been called goths), the chavs (aka white trash), the posh totty who run a phone-sex line from their dorm, the geeks, and the scary first-years.
It's probably a sign of the times that in Annabelle's first night at St Trinian's, she is broadcast "live'' on YouTube by the other girls as a prank while forced to run naked from the shower to the dormitory.
Anxious parents will be pleased to know St Trinian's is more slapstick than saucy, however.
Annabelle's rough time at the school seems to be getting worse when she is picked for the hockey team that must compete against her old school, including the bully Verity Thwaites (Lucy Punch), the daughter of Geoffrey Thwaites (Colin Firth), the education minister who wants to make an example of St Trinian's.
Meanwhile, the school is near bankruptcy.
The girls craft a cunning THATS SO RAVEN dvd plan to save the school which …continue reading