The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)

where is colin firth? where is girls aloud?

jeanie

I had a revelation!! I saw this movie over and over and over as a kid watching "Million Dollar Movie". It was imprinted into my creative unconscious and now watching it 60 years later I realize that with RnRHS and Get Crazy I was remaking it .....in a way. The Belles and…

Allan Arkush

I love organized crime when it is perpetuated by school girls.

Anika

FEMALE TROUBLE before FEMALE TROUBLE. There are exactly three jokes in this movie: 1) the little girls at St. Trinian's school are badly-behaved, chain-smoking hellions, 2) the teachers are all drunken, corrupt skanks, and 3) the principal is played by Alistair Sim in…

teamgal

I grew up with the 2007 remake of St. Trinian's but was aware that there had been a series of films concerning the anarchic girl's school in the 1950s and 1960s. Having now finally watched the first film, The Belles of St. Trinian's, I can definitely see why these films are…

Sophie Farrell

Back in 2010, London’s Cartoon Museum held a retrospective to celebrate the 90th birthday of Ronald Searle. I was mostly interested in his illustrations of the wise dimwit Nigel Molesworth and life at St Custard’s, but my eye was caught by the black-clad delinquents,…

Richard

Where tf was our head mistress Rupert Everett and our beautiful head girl Kelly Jones?? I think I speak for everyone when I say that the 2007 remake took the things to the next level and definitely had its moments to differentiate from the original movie. The remake is…

Luna

Vegan alert: The film centers around horse racing. Watched on: Hoopla

Allison M. 🌱

Not really a great deal to say about The Belles of St. Trinian's except to say I was maybe slightly disappointed with it even if I quite liked it. Mainly, perhaps, because the absolutely huge cast here are left fighting over what's left behind by an admittedly and…

🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝