Blue Murder At St. Trinians (1957-England)
by Frank Launder
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Actor: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries, Terry ThomasDirector: Frank Launder
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-26
Studio: England
DVD Reviews of Blue Murder At St. Trinians (1957-England)
DVD Review: Unsettling packaging
Summary: 2 Stars
This is a packaging-only critique, except I've given ** because I don't want to drag down ratings of the content. I have not played the DVD.
I'm not familiar with "Mad Phat Enterprises" but the disc I received looked like a home made copy. The plastic case is transparent with no printing, and the DVD is plain with type on it.
Nice to get "Blue Murder at St. Trinian's" but if I'd known it was not a professional DVD, I wouldn't have bought it ($23).
DVD Review: Entertaining frolics
Summary: 4 Stars
Whilst not quite as good as the first St Trinians film this is nevertheless still a very entertaining film. As the film opens Flash Harry (George Cole) is trying to sell the St Trinians Marriage Bureau to an Italian Prince. The Prince insists that he must see the goods before committing himself so to speak.... You can see where this is leading - the St Trinians girls through a fiendish plan get to travel to Rome and wreak havoc.
Before this happens the new Headmistress is locked in the bell tower and the Army are failing miserably to control the school. Its all great fun. One thing that is better about this film, over the first, is the addition of Terry Thomas, who is his usual cadish self. There is something magical about Terry Thomas on the screen. It really doesn't matter that he plays the same role everytime, in these sort of films hes perfect.
The rest of the cast are basically the same except that Alistair Sim only has a small role, which one of the reasons this isn't as good as the first film. Overall though throughly enjoyable.
Description of Blue Murder At St. Trinians (1957-England)
With TERRY THOMAS, GEORGE COLE, JOYCE GRENFELL, ALASTAIR SIM, LIONEL JEFFRIES, SABRINA. Based on the drawings of RONALD SEARLE. Rollicking, madcap slapstick farce chronicling the shenanigans of the pupils at the infamous St.Trinians School for Girls: holy terrors who are not inaccurately described as "fiends in human shape" and " a tribe of little cannibals." St. Trinians is a most unusual school. As the film opens, its being run by the British army because the headmistress, Miss Amelia Fritton (played by Alastair Sim, in drag), has found herself in jail. The girls range in age from prepubescent brats to teenage sirens; via chicanery, they win a trip to the continent and hope that one of their senior members will get to his royal highness Prince Bruno, Italys foremost bachelor. Joe Mangan, father of one of the girls, is a thief whos pilfered some diamonds and is on the lam from the law. He poses as St.Trinians new headmistress and chaperones the girls on the journey. The film is crammed with gags which only begin when the St. Trinians students cause their military guardians to beg their superiors for reinforcements. The girls cleverly dispose of the real new headmistress and go on to cause commotion in Paris, Vienna and, finally, Italy. The cast is crammed with some of Englands top character comedians, including Sim, Jeffries, Joyce Grenfell (playing a self-described crazy, mixed-up policewoman) and Terry Thomas (as the proprietor of the only bus company in the country that would dare agree to transport the girls on their trip). Recomended! 86 minutes.NOTE: This DVD is published under license from Video Yesteryear - Plain Case - NO ARTWORK
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