Cecil Parker
Professor Canford
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The Pure Hell of St Trinian's is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder and starring Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell and Eric Barker. It was written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat and set in the fictional St Trinian's School. It was the third in a series of four films.
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's. Naughty British schoolgirls wind up in Arabia, taken there by a professor (Cecil Parker) to be wives for an emir's sons.
- Comedy
The fiendish girls of St. Trinian's, brought to trial at Old Bailey for burning down their school, are freed when the mysterious Professor Canford, recently arrived from the University of Baghdad, claims that he can rehabilitate them.
The pupils are found guilty and the judge hands them into the care of a pretty dubious child psychiatrist. The sixth form are soon kidnapped and on their way to Arabia with the Ministry of Education, Barchester police, and an Army Bath Unit after them. IMDb 6.1 1 h 34 min 1961.
The girls of St Trinian's think it is spiffing to burn their school down and even change the hose of the fire engine to a petrol, tanker. Found guilty at court for arson. Sixth former Rosalie Dawn flirts with the judge who puts them all on probation with a mysterious Professor Cranford from the University of Baghdad.
Superintendent Kemp-Bird (Lloyd Lamble) is on the verge of finally marrying his very long term (sixteen years now) fiancée Sergeant Ruby Gates (Joyce Grenfell). But he decides to postpone their wedding and sends Gates to join the school party on their voyage instead, where she stows away on a lifeboat.
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed.
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's ★★½ 1961. In this sequel to “Blue Murder at St. Trinian's,” a sheik who desires to fill out his harem tries recruiting at a rowdy girls' school. Although it isn't as funny as the first, due to the lack of Alistair Sim, it is still humorous.
The wayward students of St. Trinian’s School for Girls are up to their old shenanigans, this time in pursuit of an Arab sheik who is actively seeking school-age recruits to join his ever-expanding harem.
