List of the best Frank Launder movies: The Happiest Days of Your Life(1950), The Belles of St. Trinian's(1954), Blue Murder at St. Trinian's(1957), The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery(1965), The Wildcats of St. Trinian's(1980), The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's(1961), Geordie(1955), Captain Boycott(1947), 2,000 Women(1944), The Adventuress(1946), Lady Godiva Rides Again(1951) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1950
81 Minutes
Director
Alastair Sim Margaret Rutherford Joyce Grenfell Guy Middleton Edward Rigby Muriel Aked John Bentley Bernadette O'Farrell Richard Wattis Patricia Owens
headmaster headmistress athletic director porter student inspector witty frenetic england countryside school blitz of london mix-up secrets argument discipline world war ii underdog rise 1940s
Chaos ensues for staff and students alike when an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.
Comedy
UK
1954
91 Minutes
Director
Alastair Sim George Cole Joyce Grenfell Hermione Baddeley Betty Ann Davies Beryl Reid Renee Houston
headmistress bookie student juvenile delinquents petty criminal teacher amusing witty lighthearted cheeky madcap spirited boarding school england spying boarding-school life horse racing education delinquency deception
The schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books as they try to get-rich-quick. They are abetted by the headmistress' brother.
Comedy
UK
1957
86 Minutes
Director
headmaster driver schemer thief schoolgirl wild hilarious cheery england school france italy pool school trip jewelry theft arranged marriage bad behavior europe growing up adventure
The girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond-thief disguised as a woman to elude the police.
Comedy, Action
UK
1965
94 Minutes
Director
Sidney Gilliat Frankie Howerd Dora Bryan Reg Varney Desmond Walter-Ellis Cyril Chamberlain Arthur Mullard Stratford Johns Raymond Huntley Richard Wattis Peter Gilmore
train robber girl school principal schoolgirl cheeky amusing airy witty all-girls school england train robbery robbery attempt comedy female bonding school adventure discovery 1960s
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
Comedy
UK
1980
91 Minutes
Director
The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.
Comedy
1961
94 Minutes
Director
Cecil Parker George Cole Joyce Grenfell Eric Barker Thorley Walters Irene Handl Dennis Price Sidney James Julie Alexander Lloyd Lamble Raymond Huntley
teenager emir schoolgirl professional judge sheik intense amusing charming creative arabia school harem arranged marriage fire kidnapping adventure discovery underdog rescue
Naughty British schoolgirls wind up in Arabia, taken there by a professor (Cecil Parker) to be wives for an emir's sons.
Comedy, Drama
1955
93 Minutes
Director
Alastair Sim Bill Travers Brian Reece Molly Urquhart Miles Malleson Jameson Clark Doris Goddard Norah Gorsen
hammer-thrower girlfriend love interest athlete bully shot-putter amusing uplifting emotional scotland melbourne, australia sport tournament olympic games bodybuilding bullying fame vanity competition transformation quest
A Scottish gamekeeper's wee son (Bill Travers) takes up bodybuilding and becomes an Olympic hammer thrower.
Drama, History
1947
94 Minutes
Director
Stewart Granger Kathleen Ryan Cecil Parker Mervyn Johns Alastair Sim Robert Donat
farmer landowner priest irishman love interest patriotic tense ireland village historical events rebellion poverty greed courage rise love underdog 19th century
An Irish tenant farmer (Stewart Granger) leads others against a land agent (Cecil Parker) threatening eviction.
War
1944
97 Minutes
Director
Flora Robson Phyllis Calvert Patricia Roc Renee Houston Reginald Purdell Anne Crawford Jean Kent James McKechnie Robert Arden Carl Jaffe Muriel Aked
prisoner nazi guard stripper journalist pilot melodramatic patriotic hotel france bedroom prison life escape teamwork world war ii women escape rivalry quest 1940s
A lavish old hotel is turned into an internment camp for women during the Battle of France. The inhabitants, including a British nun, conceal downed airmen from the Nazis, hoping to smuggle them to safety.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1946
96 Minutes
Director
Deborah Kerr Trevor Howard Raymond Huntley Liam Redmond Harry Webster
spy nazi lieutenant irishwoman gutsy crafty melodramatic patriotic suspenseful ireland dublin northern ireland world war ii nationalism espionage romance love rescue escape pursuit
A British agent (Trevor Howard) follows a young Irishwoman (Deborah Kerr) duped by a Nazi spy (Raymond Huntley).
Comedy
1951
90 Minutes
Director
Dennis Price Pauline Stroud John McCallum Stanley Holloway Diana Dors George Cole Kay Kendall Sidney James Dana Wynter Googie Withers Alastair Sim
beauty queen con artist womanizer film producer amusing confident cheeky club beauty pageant london england beauty pageant show business adventure transformation underdog 20th century
An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.