St Trinian's

On the data. Seven films across fifty five years, in two clumps with a long gap between them. The original run is four films directed by Frank Launder, from 1954 to 1966, built on Ronald Searle's cartoons about a girls' school where the pupils are criminals and the staff are worse. George Cole's Flash Harry is the thread through them, more than any headmistress is. The headmistress is recast twice. Alastair Sim plays her in the first film, appears in only two scenes of the second, and is gone from the third. By 1966 the part is a different character entirely, played by Dora Bryan. The Wildcats of St Trinian's, in 1980, is the awkward one. Same director, fourteen years later, almost no returning cast, its British financing collapsed mid production and Hong Kong money finished it. It has never been released on disc outside America. The 2007 and 2009 films are a clean restart. Rupert Everett doubles as the headmistress and her brother, which is a deliberate nod to Alastair Sim, but the character has a different first name and no story connects the revival to anything earlier. One small practical annoyance: the name is written both St Trinian's and St. Trinian's depending on the source, which makes searching for these unreliable. A third revival film has an entry on one database and was never made. Nothing new has been announced.

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