The hellions of St. Trinians are recruited to a sheik's harem. Little does he know what he's letting himself in for.The hellions of St. Trinians are recruited to a sheik's harem. Little does he know what he's letting himself in for.The hellions of St. Trinians are recruited to a sheik's harem. Little does he know what he's letting himself in for.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was Joyce Grenfell's final appearance in the "St. Trinian's" film series.
- GoofsButters and Culpepper-Brown are given secret information that was written on rice paper, so that they could eat it to dispose of the information. Butters is incredibly reluctant to eat his paper as he claims to be allergic to rice. Culpepper-Brown could have easily eaten both pieces to avoid this issue entirely.
- Quotes
Prosecuting Counsel: I want you to recall the night of the fire. Can you remember where you where at nine o'clock?
'Flash' Harry Cuthbert Edwards: Yeah, I'd been out to see a girl called Chloe about her ally.
Judge: Her ally?
'Flash' Harry Cuthbert Edwards: Mony,... alimony your honour. Part of the bureau's service, and between you and me, the part with the most lard in it.
Judge: [Looking puzzled] Lard?
'Flash' Harry Cuthbert Edwards: Yeah, lolly, crinkle,... cabbage, hmm, well mazuma if you want the correct legal term my lord.
- Crazy creditsThe end credits include one for 'Camels by Abdullah'.
- ConnectionsFeatured in A Bit of Scarlet (1997)
This entry in the series starts really well. Not only does it have what I consider to be a great line (`there's always trouble when there's arson around') but the courtroom stuff is very funny. The rest of the film from there starts to tail off, the continuation of the film sees the old characters come back in (mostly) are this is good. However once the action moves to Africa etc it all becomes a little silly but doesn't manage to be fun for it.
The action gets more frantic and less amusing as it goes along and, by the end of the whole thing, I'd pretty much lost interest in it. The cast are reasonably good. The girls are in two camps the young thugs and the sexy `girls' (albeit it they are happily in their 20's). The support cast includes good performances from George Cole (complete with cheeky chappy music in case you didn't get it). Parker and Grenfell are OK but their stuff on the island doesn't really wash. Barker and Walters are fine, as is a cameo from Le Mesurier, but Sid James is pretty wasted.
Overall this is worth seeing if you like the series (although it fades throughout the 90 minutes), but there are better films in the series if you're just coming in now.
- bob the moo
- Dec 6, 2003
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Чистый ад Сент-Триниан
- Filming locations
- Dawlish Warren, Devon, England, UK(location)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1