Inspired by Ronald Searle's British cartoons about the little horrors of a girls' school, The Belles of St. Trinian's makes an excellent start but never lives up to the promise of the opening reel.
Reviving a long-dormant series of British boarding-school comedies, St. Trinian's opens with youth-in-revolt vignettes that suggest an all-girl Lord of the Flies. At heart, though, the movie is as ...
October’s guilty-pleasure prize goes to ‘St. Trinian’s,” the flawed, but naughty-schoolgirls-in-uniform-resplendent new installment in the series that began with a 1954 British hit inspired by ...
Buoyed by bonny B.O. in Blighty and ace ancillary, the belles of Britain’s most anarchic private school get to ride again in “St. Trinian’s: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold,” a much-improved modern ...
The schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books as they try to get-rich-quick. They are abetted by the headmistress' brother. In this classic comedy which spawned ...
St. Trinian’s is the worst school in Britain, and the belles of St. Trinian’s are thugs in naughty schoolgirls’ clothing. “St. Trinian’s,” the third-highest-grossing independent movie in British ...
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of ...
Cartoonist Ronald Searle's schoolgirls are probably the most evil creatures to appear in English letters since Shakespeare's lago. Not content to be confined to the pages of Punch, the horrible little ...
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of ...