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Bookmark this pageThe Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980)
Director: Frank Launder
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Launder and Gilliat's series about the dreadful girls' boarding school, inspired by Ronald Searle's cartoons, revived after a 14-year absence from the screen. Too late. The '60s versions were already failing in their attempt to find contemporary material on which to hang the myth (for that's what it had become - weekend wet dreams for suburbia). This one should never have been made: the old stock actors (Grenfell, Sim, et al) have died; the storyline is feebly offensive (the girls kidnap the daughter of a rich Arab to press their demand for Trade Union recognition of their strike); and the repressed anarchic energy of the '50s originals (Amazons for Chaos) has just dribbled away into more page three cheesecake.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Launder
Producer: EM Smedley Aston
Cast: Sheila Hancock, Michael Hordern, Joe Melia, Thorley Walters, Rodney Bewes, Deborah Norton, Maureen Lipman, Julia McKenzie full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 91 mins
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