Biography: Frank Launder |
A scriptwriter in British films by the late '20s, Launder collaborated with Sidney Gilliat in the late '30s and early '40s on the screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and Carol Reed's Night Train to Munich and Kipps. They also... more
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The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980)
Tags: Comedy
Length: 91min
Back in the early 1950s, cartoonist/satirist Ronald Searle dreamed up the "Belles of St. Trinians," a gaggle of sweet-faced, diabolically inclined British schoolgirls. These characters were featured in several popular British comedies of the 1950s and...
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
Cast: Frankie Howerd
Tags: Comedy Crime Comedy Slapstick
Length: 90min
Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in The Great St. Trinian's Bank Robbery. Comedian Frankie Howerd plays the head of a train-robbery gang who cleverly hides the loot from their biggest haul...
Cast: Frank Launder Bill Fraser Percy Herbert
Tags: Military Comedy Comedy
Length: 91min
In this British wartime comedy, a group of captured con-artists must choose between jail terms or military service. Naturally they choose the army. Once they are assigned to a post they set up successful gambling and liquor operations. When they go...
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1961)
Tags: Comedy
Length: 94min
One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s, this farce by Frank Launder features the usual bevy of comely young women who attend the school. This time around, the femmes...
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
Cast: Stanley Holloway
Tags: Comedy
Length: 90min
Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests. Waitress Marjorie (Pauline Stroud) enters one competition after another, hoping for fame and fortune. She manages to make the...
Cast: Bill Travers
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 93min
Also known as Geordie, the British comedy Wee Geordie was immensely popular worldwide. A slight of frame and puny gamekeeper's son named Geordie (Paul Young), who is coming of age in the Scottish highlands, grows sick and tired of being picked on. He...
Tags: Comedy Adventure Docudrama Romantic Adventure
Length: 95min
The Bridal Path is standard comedy fare about a young man, Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers) sent out from his island home to go bride-hunting. The introverted, taciturn Ewan is reaching marriageable age just when the island's elders come up with a new...
Cast: Roland Culver Martita Hunt Miles Malleson
Tags: Comedy
Length: 91min
This low-key Launder-Gilliat production was inspired by a play by James Bridie. Alastair Sim carries the ball as Captain Paris, an army chaplain who endeavors to organize a camp show for the troops. Practically everyone with whom the Captain comes in...
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1956)
Cast: Eric Barker Terry-Thomas Alastair Sim George Cole
Tags: Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 86min
Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy. Because the girls cannot behave themselves, their headmistress (Alastair Sim in drag!) has been thrown in jail, and the school is...
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1953)
Cast: Malcolm Arnold
Tags: Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 86min
Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle. The girls of St. Trinian's aim their deviltry at a gang of crooks who plan to steal a famous race...
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