The Wildcats of St Trinian's

The Wildcats of St. Trinian's
DVD cover
Directed by	Frank Launder
Produced by	E.M. Smedley-Aston
Written by	Frank Launder Ronald Searle
Starring	Sheila Hancock Michael Hordern Joe Melia Thorley Walters Rodney Bewes Maureen Lipman Julia McKenzie Rosalind Knight Ambrosine Phillpotts Rose Hill Deborah Norton
Music by	James Kenelm Clarke
Cinematography	Ernest Steward
Edited by	Antony Gibbs
Release dates	1980 (1980)
Running time	91 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Wildcats of St. Trinian's is the fifth British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School. It was released in 1980.^[1]

The film poked fun at the British trade union movement which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the Winter of Discontent.

The film was not a critical success and has yet to be released on DVD except in the US.^[2]

Plot

The girls of St. Trinian's hatch yet another fiendish plot—a trade union for British schoolgirls. Their friend and mentor, Flash Harry, suggests a plan which involves kidnapping girls from other rather more respectable colleges and substituting their own "agents". Thus begins a hilarious, often bloody, battle of wits as the girls meet resistance not only from Olga Vandermeer, their Headmistress, but from the Minister of Education, a private detective, and an oil sheikh. Despite all his desperate efforts to foil the conspiracy, the Minister has to face a growing realisation that the girls' demands will have to be met—for him this will mean a very great and very personal sacrifice.

Cast

Sheila Hancock as Olga Vandemeer
Michael Hordern as Sir Charles Hackforth
Joe Melia as Flash Harry
Thorley Walters as Hugo Culpepper Brown
Rodney Bewes as Peregrine Butters
Deborah Norton as Miss Brenner
Maureen Lipman as Miss Katy Higgs
Julia McKenzie as Miss Dolly Dormancott
Ambrosine Phillpotts as Mrs Mowbray
Rose Hill as Miss Martingale
Diana King as Miss Mactavish
Luan Peters as Miss Poppy Adams
Barbara Hicks as Miss Coke
Rosalind Knight as Miss Walsh
Patsy Smart as Miss Warmold
Bernadette O'Farrell as Miss Carfax
Sandra Payne as Miss Taylor
Frances Ruffelle as Angela Hall / Princess Roxanne
Hilda Braid as Miss Summers
Lisa Vanderpump as Ursula

References

External links

St Trinian's School

Films

Original series	The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957) The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960) The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)

1980 film	The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980)

21st century	St Trinian's (2007) St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (2009) St Trinian's 3: Versus the World (TBA)

Soundtracks	St. Trinian's: The Soundtrack St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

Other

Films directed by Frank Launder

Millions Like Us (1943)
Two Thousand Women (1944)
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
Captain Boycott (1947)
The Blue Lagoon (1949)
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
Folly to Be Wise (1953)
The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)
Geordie (1955)
Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957)
The Bridal Path (1959)
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
Joey Boy (1965)
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980)

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