Thought I'd have to make up for the horrifying lack of threads on such a classic film! :P
Favourite parts:
When Miss Fritton and the secretary are stood at the bottom of the staircase hearing the girls pillow fight in the dorms and half the ceiling plaster falls on her head and she laughs and says "Term has begun!"
I think every time Ruby{Joyce Grenfell} is talking to Sammy,and mentions that they have been engaged for 14 years,she still hasnt realized he has got her on a piece of string.As great as she is,she has got to be the dumbest woman character in the history of films.You watch her and think,when are you going to wake up.
shareWhen Miss Fritton meets flash harry. The entire hockey game segment - you don't see much, but the fact you see a mallet being waved around you realise that the opposing team does not have a chance. Why can't comedies be like this any more? most now seem to depend on being offensive and rude to get a laugh.
shareThe scene where Miss Fritton asks Harry to put a bet on for her and asks "Oh..and Harry..you will be discreet?"
To which Harry replies (as he tips his hat lower over his eyes and shoves his hands in his camel hair coat pockets and walks off to the strains of his plinky plonk piano theme)
"Discreet!?? Lady...I'm the Invisible Man!"
The scene where Harry is directing parents to 'The Brownie's Campfire'
"This way to the Brahnies Camp Fire..straight down that path, through those tres, yer can't miss it!"
When the parents are complaining to Miss Fritton about her school, and Flash comes in and tells her Arab boy has won the race. She stand up and says 'Reall Harry? Oh, well in that case, Ladies and Gentlemen, courtesy forbids me to tell you exactly where you can send your daughters'. And she and Harry swan out together. Classic!
Ooooh, and the beginning of the hockey match, after the referee has been knocked out with a mallet-
GUEST HEADTEACHER: Did you see what that girl did to the referee?
MISS FRITTON: *Cheerfully* Oh yes, yes indeed! And a GOAL! A GOAL!
Alaister Sim = genius. God, but the new movie isn't gonna measure up.
It's been a while since I watched the St Trinians films, but is this the one that ends with the stage collapsing and Alastair Sim left on a small square of stage supported by books?
I've always loved the way he/she just reacts so fed up at the girls latest trick and the fact that he knew it was coming.
'Ere? Is that your mum? Cor, what a couple of dames!
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shareRuby, in tones of disapproval: "They're having a FRENCH lunch!"
shareFlash: 'Old Woodley's coming through the woods with Amanda, get that nag out of here sharpish. If she gets her peepers on it Bella will know in a flash!'
Miss Fritton: 'Girls, you know perfectly well pets are not allowed in dormitories! And under the same rule, Harry, I doubt that you should be here either!'
Arabella: 'Monica Drew wasn't expelled when she burnt down the gymnasium.'
Miss Fritton: 'The gymnasium was insured! The sports pavillion was not.'
Miss Fritton: I think the men should go first - they did last time, when the Bishop came, if you remember.
Thought I'd have to make up for the horrifying lack of threads on such a classic film!
I like the TV race commentator announcing "They are now turning into the home straight" quickly followed by the sight of the milk cart horse turning right and into the dairy yard. On it's back is Ruby Gates, the police woman who is wielding a hefty piece of lino on which she has written her report. Obviously the horse has turned into it's home straight but I don't suppose that Ruby was too happy with their destination.
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