A group of rebellious schoolgirls foil the theft of a famous steed. Driving their headmistress crazy, the girls start making gin and try to get rich quick.
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00:01:59Tell I shout to have the windows facing the street boarded up.
00:02:08Yes, Your Highness.
00:02:10The favor of an early reply.
00:02:14My felicitations are set round.
00:02:16I was told you wished to see me with Fatima, sir.
00:02:19Yes, I do.
00:02:20Will you sit down, please, both of you?
00:02:21Miss Anderson, first let me say that I've always been delighted with the way you brought up my children.
00:02:29However, in a few years' time, Fatima will reach an age when, well, as you know, I've had to let the Americans build air bases here.
00:02:39And in the circumstances, I thought it advisable for her to finish her schooling abroad.
00:02:44I take it it's England you wish to send her to, sir?
00:02:47It is.
00:02:49Since my racehorses are there, I shall be able to visit them and Fatima at the same time.
00:02:55Had you any particular school in mind, Your Highness?
00:02:58Well, I thought you might be able to advise me about that, Miss Anderson.
00:03:02Well, of course, there are many excellent schools where there are no doubt Fatima would be.
00:03:16Tell I shout I wish to see him on a domestic matter.
00:03:20I'm awfully sorry, Your Highness, but that girl, she isn't your wife, sir.
00:03:26I beg your pardon?
00:03:27No, sir, she's not on the strength.
00:03:29She's an American lady writing a series of articles called The Lure of the Haareme for the Saturday Evening Post.
00:03:35I shan't has no right to do these things without my permission.
00:03:40You were saying, Miss Anderson?
00:03:42Well, I've been thinking.
00:03:43An old school friend of mine is headmistress at a school in Barchester called St. Trinian's.
00:03:50Barchester?
00:03:51But what could be more convenient?
00:03:53My horses are trained in the same county.
00:03:55Would you like me to write to my friend then, sir?
00:03:59Will you please, Miss Anderson?
00:04:01Inform her mother what I'm proposing, will you?
00:04:04Her mother?
00:04:06My dear girl, look in the files.
00:04:08The train is now standing in Platform 1 is the school special calling and reading Hungerford,
00:04:21Youth, Barchester, and Barchester.
00:04:30St. Trinian's?
00:04:31Now, girls, put away those whistles at once and get into the train.
00:04:41Good morning.
00:04:42I'm Prudence Buckland, physics mistress, St. Trinian's.
00:04:45Princess Fatima, I presume.
00:04:48Miss Fritton, our head, told me to keep a special eye open for little Fatima.
00:04:51Now, come along, my dear.
00:04:52The plane's just off.
00:04:53Thank you so much.
00:04:54I'll be right back.
00:05:23Oh, my God.
00:05:53Oh, my God.
00:06:23Oh, my God.
00:06:53Oh, my God.
00:07:23Come along.
00:07:27Good morning.
00:07:29If you're excused, my name is Fritton, Clarence Fritton.
00:07:32I'm Bella's father.
00:07:33She knows.
00:07:33How do, Rose?
00:07:36How do you do?
00:07:37Actually, I've come to see my sister, Miss Fritton.
00:07:40She's, uh, she's, uh, she's, uh, she's head, uh, uh, oh, thank you.
00:07:52What a very odd woman.
00:07:57What does she teach?
00:07:58Scripture and needlework.
00:07:59Oh, really?
00:08:01Hi, I told you I'd be back.
00:08:06You have that hurdle yet to cross my girl.
00:08:08Now, you just behave yourself and let me do the talking.
00:08:10Come in.
00:08:17Morning, Millie.
00:08:19Hello, Auntie.
00:08:22Clarence.
00:08:27Clarence, I thought I'd made it abundantly clear from my letter that I had expelled Arabella.
00:08:32Yes, I know, I know, Millie, I know.
00:08:34Goodness knows I've been lenient with her to the point of imbecility, Clarence.
00:08:38Monica Drew wasn't expelled when she burnt down the gymnasium.
00:08:41The gymnasium was insured.
00:08:45The sports pavilion was not.
00:08:48I appreciate the distinction, Millie.
00:08:50I can no longer afford to have, to have continual arson about in my school.
00:08:54I had to make an example.
00:08:56Why pick an Arabella?
00:08:59Clarence, when poor Frida and I started discussing,
00:09:02school during the general strike of 1926,
00:09:05we vowed to make it the happiest, carefree establishment in the whole of Britain.
00:09:09And what a gay arcadia of happy girlhood it was then,
00:09:13until the war broke out.
00:09:14And such things as good manners and good taste
00:09:17were replaced by your black market values.
00:09:21What are you doing in that dreadful get-up?
00:09:24I'm going to Newbury races.
00:09:27Still following those perlicious animals?
00:09:30Really, Clarence, you're a disgrace to the family.
00:09:32I'd hardly call you a credit to it, Millie.
00:09:35Then why are you so anxious for me to take Arabella back?
00:09:38Business.
00:09:39I hear that the Sultan of Macchiad is sending his daughter to school here.
00:09:44And what, pray, has that got to do with you or Arabella?
00:09:51The Sultan of Macchiad is a string of first-class racehorses, Millie.
00:09:56Do you...
00:09:57Do you mean to say that you're sending Arabella back here,
00:10:00simply to get you racing information?
00:10:02But in my world, we live by information.
00:10:05Well, Clarence, this is a school.
00:10:08Not... not Newmarket Heath.
00:10:11Now, now nothing on earth will persuade me to take Arabella back.
00:10:14Oh.
00:10:16Oh.
00:10:18Millie.
00:10:18You wouldn't like it if I went to Mother
00:10:23and told her that you'd mortgaged the family home up to the hilt, would you?
00:10:31Mummy would never believe you.
00:10:34Oh.
00:10:35She'd cut you out of her will in a tricer, and you'd know it.
00:10:39But, Clarence, you come here with a request like that
00:10:42without... without even having the grace to offer
00:10:44to pay Arabella's back school fees.
00:10:48Oh, I'll...
00:10:49I'll give you something on account.
00:10:52And supposing...
00:10:53just supposing I...
00:10:54I was insane enough to accept.
00:10:57How long do you expect this evil child to remain here?
00:11:00Only for this term?
00:11:01Yes, and I should think so, too.
00:11:03She's well over school age as it is.
00:11:05Jane Andrews is older than me, so is Pogo Williams.
00:11:08What's more, Pogo's married.
00:11:12Not officially.
00:11:15Clarence, I'll take 40 pounds in cash
00:11:16and the balance by check.
00:11:19I'm sorry, Millie.
00:11:20A tenner's the top.
00:11:23Clarence, I said 20 pounds in cash, not a penny less.
00:11:28I only wish I could spare it, Millie.
00:11:30Of course, if you don't...
00:11:32Oh, I suppose I'm just a foolish, weak woman.
00:11:36And you're an unscrupulous rogue, Clarence.
00:11:40Come in.
00:11:42Oh, I am sorry, Miss Fritton.
00:11:45I didn't know you were engaged.
00:11:46It's all right, it's all right.
00:11:47We're just going.
00:11:49I brought the new girls.
00:11:51How do you do?
00:11:52Is... is this a little princess?
00:11:53Yes, this is her little highness.
00:11:55Bless her.
00:11:56How are you, my dear?
00:11:57I know your father very well.
00:11:59He and I are both great animal lovers.
00:12:01Miss Buckland, bring the children over here, will you please?
00:12:04This is my daughter, Arabella.
00:12:05She's going to be a good friend to you, aren't you, Arabella?
00:12:08You bet.
00:12:09Come along, girls.
00:12:10Goodbye, Millicent.
00:12:14I'll tell mummy you're doing splendidly.
00:12:18How do you do, my dears?
00:12:19This is Daphne Potter and Celeste West.
00:12:21Oh, Daphne, Celeste.
00:12:23And this is the Princess Fatima.
00:12:25Ah, yes.
00:12:26And welcome to Centrinians.
00:12:29You'll find us all one big, happy family here.
00:12:32Perhaps just a teeny-weeny bit unorthodox, but there,
00:12:35that's better than being old-fashioned, isn't it?
00:12:37You see, in other schools, girls are sent out quite unprepared
00:12:41into a merciless world.
00:12:43But when our girls leave here,
00:12:45it is the merciless world which has to be prepared.
00:12:49That is why we set great store here on physical fitness.
00:12:52Lots of games, lots of exercise,
00:12:54a certain amount of food,
00:12:56and above all, lots and lots of fresh air.
00:13:00Hmm.
00:13:03Particularly fresh air.
00:13:11We're going to be late if we don't, Arabella.
00:13:13Two clocks of first ration.
00:13:15It's gone one now.
00:13:16There's plenty of time.
00:13:17It's only half an hour to the course.
00:13:18Hold that a minute, will you?
00:13:20But carry on, Sam, and don't dawdle.
00:13:22Okay, go.
00:13:26And you'll show the girls round the school, won't you, Miss Buckland?
00:13:29I will, Miss Fritton.
00:13:30Right off you go.
00:13:34Goodbye.
00:13:35Ah, Miss Holland, come right in.
00:13:38Oh, the post.
00:13:39It is.
00:13:40Oh, quite a collection.
00:13:42Miss Fritton, there still isn't an ounce of food in the school,
00:13:44and unless the tradespeople have paid something at once,
00:13:46there won't be.
00:13:46But there may be some cheques there.
00:13:47Cheques are no good.
00:13:48Oh, some of them might be.
00:13:49We need cash.
00:13:51Do you want me to draw it on a blackboard for you?
00:13:53Unless we get food today, you might as well close the dump.
00:13:56Miss Holland, please do not refer to my school as a dump.
00:13:59Your school?
00:14:00You mean the bank school, the pawnbroker school.
00:14:02And while I think of it, I suppose that's where the school challenge cups have gone again.
00:14:07I needed a holiday.
00:14:08You'll have a long one soon.
00:14:10How on earth do you think you can carry on with nothing but an overdraft and bouncing cheques?
00:14:14Some of them have not bounced, Miss Holland.
00:14:17They're merely post-dated.
00:14:19What is the use of cheques dated 1956, 7, 8 and 9?
00:14:22Well, I was taking the long-term view.
00:14:27It's this term you want to think about, milady.
00:14:30I can't make you out.
00:14:31You live in this sort of dream world, queening it over this heathen rabble.
00:14:35Why don't you inquire what sort of families they come from before you accept them?
00:14:38You know, Miss Holland, I sometimes think that you haven't one ounce of humanity in you.
00:14:43And I suppose the truth is that I have too much.
00:14:47Yes, I sometimes think it's just the frustrated mother instinct in me that urges me on.
00:14:54This must be a letter from the Southern.
00:15:01Oh, yes, look, Holland.
00:15:03A cheque.
00:15:04A cheque for two terms in advance.
00:15:05Miss Fritton, must I keep repeating, we need cash.
00:15:08Oh, but I dare say we shall have it, we shall have it.
00:15:12Oh, just listen to this.
00:15:13He wants Fatima to take piano, horse riding, Greek dancing, verse speaking, and all kinds of extras.
00:15:18We need cash, and now?
00:15:22I have given Fatima 100 pounds pocket money.
00:15:29100 pounds?
00:15:32Pocket money.
00:15:35Holland, not only do I think that this is a silver lining,
00:15:44breif and see, it will be muffins for tea.
00:15:48Oh, man, what do I think is a silver lining?
00:15:51Oh, vamos, what do I think it comes to it?
00:15:58Yeah.
00:15:59It was something I need to know.
00:16:07Oh, man, what do I do?
00:16:11I don't know.
00:16:11Oh, man.
00:16:12Oh, man.
00:16:13Give me ass.
00:16:14George Ripper, follow me.
00:16:15Jamie?
00:16:15this is where we mistresses relax in our free time hello everybody i said hello everybody
00:16:34i brought the new girls to meet you this is fatima the princess of macchiad you know
00:16:40daphne and celeste this is miss brimmer she'll be taking you in art and handicrafts
00:16:45like a tartagy no thank you this is miss wilson she teaches maths i say what do i get the
00:16:52kids off the eye line old sport really civil mademoiselle de saint emilion your french
00:16:59mistress enchanté this is miss drownda she'll be taking you in geography some of the time
00:17:09come along girls and this is miss gail who'll be taking you in english literature
00:17:15hello ducks how are you i hope you like it here come along girls come along like it here
00:17:22like it here that's a funny one really brimmer you might at least wait until they're out of
00:17:28earshot if old fritner'd only pay me what she owes me i'd have been out of this dump lot of
00:17:34shock you wouldn't see me for dust oh if only i had the courage to give myself up why don't
00:17:40you deal the foot of a bed around the company i'm not complaining i haven't got a single
00:17:43jolly qualification still if we've got a stick here i think we ought to make an effort to prize
00:17:48some dough out of the old witch good morning all i hope you enjoyed your holidays oh this
00:17:54place it always reminds me of a lady's powder room in port side but if i may interrupt you
00:17:59just for one moment to tell you that i've had the usual communication from the ministry only
00:18:03this time this time they're threatening to close the school thank heaven someone's seen the light
00:18:08may i remind you miss waters that if the school closes it'll be at least five years before you
00:18:13see the light but seriously ladies i really think that we ought to attempt to affect at least
00:18:20an appearance of improvement this term i'm sure that if we all pull together we can manage
00:18:25the odd school certificate you'll realize we've none of us been paid since easter i know that
00:18:29i know that and believe me it's on my conscience well get it off your conscience i have the greatest
00:18:35hopes of doing so shortly we have several affluent new pupils this term including the sultan of
00:18:42backyard's daughter you must be crazy to send her here doubtless doubtless but the point is that
00:18:46we've got her and it's not merely what he's prepared to spend oh goodness knows money appears to be no
00:18:51object he's he's given her 100 pounds pocket money oh how much 100 pounds but it's what it may
00:18:59lead to that is important i'm told that the sultan has at least 17 other daughters and of course i
00:19:06i don't want to be too optimistic ladies but i really think that the tide has ceased to ebb
00:19:11i understand your father gave you 100 pounds pocket money my dear that's a lot of cash to carry around
00:19:38with you here most unwise almost fatal in fact now if you'll give it to me i'll look after it for you
00:19:44hurry come on cough up where is it
00:19:47what's inside
00:19:54well what do you know the old so-and-so
00:20:05oh
00:20:14oh
00:20:18Another bedtime, another turn, but oh, it's good to be back in harness again.
00:20:38Ah, yes, for some just routine, but for us, my dear Prudence, the breath of life.
00:20:48Listen, time has begun.
00:21:08Come in.
00:21:18Superintendent Kemp Bird of the Barchester Constabulary, sir.
00:21:21Ah, sit down, Superintendent.
00:21:23It isn't often we have the pleasure of entertaining the police here.
00:21:27I, er, thank you.
00:21:29I, er, I'm sorry I wasn't more explicit in my letter.
00:21:32Er, er, thank you.
00:21:34It's, er, it's not the sort of thing one can discuss on paper.
00:21:38Oh, no, intrigue me.
00:21:40Well, it's about a girl's school called, er, St Trinian's.
00:21:55Pardon me.
00:21:56What's at all?
00:22:02You, er, know all about it, I see.
00:22:07You observe the abnormal size of the T file.
00:22:10What sort of line have you taken?
00:22:12Well, in the first place, I sent down one of my best men to inspect it.
00:22:15And what did he report?
00:22:16No, he came back.
00:22:18I beg your pardon?
00:22:19Disappeared completely.
00:22:20Oh, what did you do then?
00:22:21Sent another man after him.
00:22:23Oh.
00:22:24And he brought him back?
00:22:25No, he disappeared too.
00:22:27Did you mean to tell me that you said two inspectors and never heard of either of them again?
00:22:31Not a word.
00:22:32What?
00:22:33But why didn't you inform the police?
00:22:34Well, it's hardly the sort of thing the Ministry wants to draw attention to.
00:22:37Besides, I knew they were all right.
00:22:39They kept drawing their pay.
00:22:40Thought I put a stop to that in the end.
00:22:42Do you mean to tell me that you simply accepted the situation?
00:22:45Superintendent, bear with me, please.
00:22:48This school has practically reduced me to a nervous wreck.
00:22:51A year ago, I went to a psychiatrist and he told me to put it right out of my mind.
00:22:55I'm afraid that's what I've done.
00:22:56Now, my secretary just sends them routine letters and I sign them.
00:23:00My dear fellow, I wouldn't trouble you now.
00:23:04There's been a positive crime wave in the area.
00:23:07Arson, forged fivers, poisoned pen letters.
00:23:12I'm surprised to hear the girls can write.
00:23:13The trouble is that we have no direct evidence.
00:23:15Ah.
00:23:16And that's where I really need your help.
00:23:18I want to get someone to work for me on the inside.
00:23:21What makes you think he'll come back?
00:23:23I thought we might get a woman police officer on the teaching staff for a few months.
00:23:27If there are any vacancies.
00:23:30There are always vacancies at St Trinian's.
00:23:33The significant thing is that nothing ever happens during the school holidays.
00:23:37Oh, school holidays, happy days.
00:23:39How I long for them.
00:23:41Me too.
00:23:44I, um...
00:23:46I suppose you wouldn't care to give me the name of your psychiatrist.
00:23:48I'd be delighted, old man.
00:23:50Oh, thanks very much.
00:23:51Ah, just as I thought.
00:23:52There we are.
00:23:53That's what you're after, I fancy.
00:23:59Sergeant Gates to see you, sir.
00:24:03Send her in.
00:24:08Come in.
00:24:12You sent for me?
00:24:13Yes.
00:24:14I have a most important assignment for you, Sergeant.
00:24:16Oh, good-o Sammy.
00:24:18How many times must I tell you not to call me Sammy in the office?
00:24:21Sorry, Sammy.
00:24:22Sorry.
00:24:24Before you joined the police, you taught in a girls' school.
00:24:28Yes, I was a games mistress.
00:24:29Quite.
00:24:30And that's the reason I've chosen you for this job.
00:24:32I want you to go into a girls' school, incognito of course, and see what's going on there.
00:24:37It's not St Trinian's.
00:24:41St Trinian's.
00:24:43No, Sammy.
00:24:44No.
00:24:45You of all people to send me there.
00:24:47There are limits.
00:24:48I won't do it.
00:24:49I shall regard her refusal as a deletion of duty.
00:24:51I can't help it.
00:24:52It's not fair.
00:24:53You're taking advantage of me.
00:24:55Don't be ridiculous.
00:24:56Yes, you are.
00:24:57After all we've meant to each other, it's...
00:25:00It's wrong.
00:25:01Now listen to me, Ruby.
00:25:05I didn't mean to mention this, but didn't I give you a promotion?
00:25:10Didn't I take you off the beat?
00:25:11I know.
00:25:12I know.
00:25:13Then surely you can do this one little thing in return.
00:25:17But it's not a little thing.
00:25:18It's...
00:25:19It's horrible.
00:25:20Ruby dear, please don't be so...
00:25:22So...
00:25:23Unpolicewomanly.
00:25:24I...
00:25:25I can't help it.
00:25:26It's a terrible place.
00:25:28Why do you suppose I want you to go there?
00:25:30Don't you see that we must work together to stamp out this...
00:25:33This canker?
00:25:34But we shan't be together.
00:25:36You'll be here and I'll be there.
00:25:38We shan't even get to the pictures together.
00:25:40It won't be forever.
00:25:43I wrote to the school on your behalf, applying for the post of games mistress.
00:25:47You didn't.
00:25:48They've accepted you.
00:25:50Who's Chloe Crawley?
00:25:53That's you dear.
00:25:55I couldn't use your real name.
00:25:58But Chloe, that's a terrible name.
00:26:01And Crawley.
00:26:03They'd call me Creepy Crawley.
00:26:05Why couldn't you have thought of something like Mavis?
00:26:08You don't look like a Mavis to me dear.
00:26:11Well I hope I don't look like a Chloe either.
00:26:13No, of course you don't dear.
00:26:16To me you'll always be just...
00:26:18plain Ruby.
00:26:20Don't you see dear, how much this means to us?
00:26:23And you will do it.
00:26:24For both our seeks.
00:26:26All right.
00:26:27I'll have to polish up my hockey before I bully off.
00:26:39What sort of record have you got at hockey?
00:26:41Oh my dear Miss Crawley, the trouble has been to get a fixture list.
00:26:44Owing to the spirit of defeatism that even our littlest girls seem to have instilled into their opponents.
00:26:49We have won practically every cup in the county.
00:26:51Well done.
00:26:52With the exception of the Markham Trophy.
00:26:54And we're playing Bilston Lane for that very shortly.
00:26:57But not quite the same class of school perhaps, Miss Crawley.
00:27:00But there we'll never lay the spectra of juvenile delinquency by cold shouldering it, shall we, Miss Crawley?
00:27:04Oh, careful.
00:27:06School cups, I suppose.
00:27:21Oh, yes, yes, yes, that's right.
00:27:23They've, er, they've gone to be punished.
00:27:25Polished.
00:27:26Quite a collection, Miss Crawley, isn't it?
00:27:28Quite a collection.
00:27:29I'm sorry I can't show you the gym.
00:27:31We're temporarily out of action.
00:27:33What are you doing, Euphemia?
00:27:36Nothing, Miss Crawley!
00:27:38Who is that man?
00:27:43Oh!
00:27:44You know, I'm not absolutely sure.
00:27:48It could be Harry.
00:27:50A boot boy I engaged in 1940.
00:27:53Of course, he was only twelve and didn't have any moustache then, but...
00:27:56Well, apart from that, I see no reason why it shouldn't be Harry.
00:28:03The fourth form are really quite amazingly advanced in their chemistry.
00:28:07Shall we see what they're up to, hmm?
00:28:15Bessie?
00:28:16Bessie?
00:28:17You will be careful of that nitroglycerin, won't you, Pessie?
00:28:20Yes, it's pretty.
00:28:21A message written.
00:28:22Shh!
00:28:23I told you they're frightfully advanced.
00:28:24I told you they're frightfully advanced.
00:28:28I told you they're frightfully advanced.
00:28:49Ah!
00:28:50There you are, Miss Loosen.
00:28:51Well, great activity as usual.
00:28:52Oh, Robert.
00:28:53Because I haven't a clue what they're making.
00:28:54I'd rather, because I haven't a clue what they're making.
00:28:57Well, let's see, shall we?
00:29:00Gangway, would you mind?
00:29:08Hold it steady, Molly!
00:29:11Door away!
00:29:15Here he comes, Flash!
00:29:24Listen, sir. It's got something. I don't quite know what, but send a few bottles up to my room.
00:29:37Whatever it is, it'll do for the old girl's reunion.
00:29:40Come along now, Miss Crawley. You must hear yourself away. We've lots more to see, you know.
00:29:44Well, practical things like chemistry prove such a natural outlet, I always think.
00:30:01Oh, dear. Poor little Bessie.
00:30:04I warned her to be careful of that nitroglycerine.
00:30:07I think perhaps we'll leave that till you're more used to our ways, Miss Crawley.
00:30:21Geography.
00:30:22Bordeaux.
00:30:24Rhone.
00:30:26Burgundy.
00:30:27Puy.
00:30:28And Chapman.
00:30:29Quite right, dear.
00:30:31And now I want you to write down the six best vintage years of champagne since 1928.
00:30:39Hi, Billy. Your dad wants you on the phone.
00:30:42Okay.
00:30:45Oh, I'll give your love to the old man.
00:30:48Well, Miss Crawley, I think that gives you a fair picture of the school.
00:30:51Quite.
00:30:54Hello, Pop.
00:30:56Hello, kid.
00:30:57How are you getting on with the little princess?
00:30:59Okay, why?
00:31:02Just that, well, it looks as if we might need the little lady sooner than I expected.
00:31:06You know the horse, Blue Prince, that Benny and I have entered for the gold cup.
00:31:11Well, we've backed it to win the fortune.
00:31:14Ah, now let me tell you.
00:31:16The Sultan's got a horse he bought from France called Arrow Boy, entered in the same race,
00:31:21and you want the princess to take me over to the stables to find out the form.
00:31:25Is that it?
00:31:26Yes, yes, that's it, but not so loud, Bella.
00:31:30Arrow Boy doesn't stand an earthly in the book, but, well, he'd like to be on an absolute certainty.
00:31:36And they're running it in a trial tomorrow morning.
00:31:38What time?
00:31:40Nine o'clock, I'm told.
00:31:42Nine.
00:31:43The time, the distance, and the weight he carries.
00:31:46Oh, you leave that to me.
00:31:48I'll take a few of the gang along.
00:31:50Okay.
00:31:52Okay.
00:31:55Okay, don't worry, Pop.
00:31:56We'll get the dope.
00:31:57Jacky!
00:31:58What will you give me if I tell you what I've just heard?
00:31:59What have you heard?
00:32:00Something you'd like to know.
00:32:01Cracker, kids!
00:32:02No!
00:32:03There we go!
00:32:04Stop it!
00:32:05Let go of my arm!
00:32:06What is it now?
00:32:07Stop drifting my arm first, you pigs!
00:32:08It's not fair!
00:32:09I make it my...
00:32:10Oh!
00:32:11Come on, spill it!
00:32:12Well, you know Bella's dad's got a horse in the gold cup.
00:32:13We know.
00:32:14Well, he's just rung her up to tell her to find out the form of a horse the Sultan's got in the same race.
00:32:32That's right.
00:32:33We're running it in a trial tomorrow.
00:32:35What's that?
00:32:36I don't know, but whatever it is, I think we ought to know about it.
00:32:38Yes, there may be a chance for us to make some money.
00:32:40Money!
00:32:41Money!
00:32:46Ready, John?
00:32:47Yes, sir.
00:32:50Right over.
00:33:10Well, it looks all right on paper, but it doesn't mean much less than we know the weights.
00:33:11Where do they put the weights?
00:33:12In the saddle, of course.
00:33:13Lumps of leg.
00:33:14Well, it looks all right on paper, but it doesn't mean much less than we know the weights.
00:33:27Where do they put the weights?
00:33:28In the saddle, of course.
00:33:29Lumps of leg.
00:33:30How we could find that out?
00:33:31Okay.
00:33:32What about the weight?
00:33:33Okay.
00:33:34What about the weight?
00:33:35Leave that to Amanda.
00:33:36That baby's giving them the full treatment.
00:33:40Corn exchange then, nine o'clock Thursday.
00:33:41Corn exchange then, nine o'clock Thursday.
00:33:42Oh.
00:33:43Oh.
00:33:44Oh.
00:33:45Hurry up, Jackie, as quick as you can.
00:33:46I am.
00:33:47Oh.
00:33:48Oh.
00:33:49Oh.
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00:34:34Oh.
00:34:35don't you know anything about racing not much but it's time you did it your age
00:34:40come on kids get your lolly together and we'll shove it on to our boy okay
00:35:05how do you do
00:35:35here he comes
00:35:42come on flash
00:35:45what on earth are you doing there
00:35:55listening
00:35:57oh go it what's your disgusting child
00:35:59you know what goes on here if you don't keep your ear to the ground
00:36:02now hurry up or i'll give you a hundred lines a hundred lines got a machine for doing them
00:36:17it's all we have
00:36:18free nigga
00:36:19well you ain't gonna make a fortune on that are you
00:36:21how about our gin money harry
00:36:23how about your oh no no i haven't flogged it yet
00:36:26i mean it ain't everyone who likes homemade gin
00:36:28besides there's a lot of good stuff on the market nowadays
00:36:30i've just thought of something
00:36:32what about the hundred quid fetter mascot
00:36:34i haven't got it miss fritten hairs
00:36:36well supposing if we could get it off her
00:36:38would you lend it to us
00:36:39it's in a good course fatty
00:36:41she'd never part with it
00:36:42oh i know it
00:36:43it's your lord innit
00:36:44why don't you gang up and go and put the screws on the old custard
00:36:46let's go
00:36:48yeah
00:36:52so there you are at last
00:36:58just because i was able to ward off the trades people with something on account you think you can forget all about it
00:37:03miss holland i pay you to attend to my accounts should you kinda get up out of my chair
00:37:08One really can't call anything one's own in this place.
00:37:12You're right there. We've got 400 pounds in the bank and we owe 4,000.
00:37:16What? 4,000? Oh dear.
00:37:20Oh, are you quite sure? Of course I'm sure.
00:37:24Look for yourself. I don't want to look.
00:37:28Figures mean nothing to me. They will when the bailiffs arrive.
00:37:32And while I'm here, I should like to take this opportunity of giving you my fortnight's notice.
00:37:36I'm taking a job with the pools. It will be heaven to be in the money again.
00:38:06Come in.
00:38:18Can we see you a minute, Miss Fritton, please?
00:38:24Hm?
00:38:26Oh, yes, yes, yes, I suppose so, if you, if you must.
00:38:32Can I have my pocket money, please?
00:38:36Why, whatever for, Fatima?
00:38:40Because it's hers.
00:38:42Do you have to bring your friends with you to, to ask for your pocket money?
00:38:46But they want to borrow some, don't you?
00:38:48Borrowing is against the rules.
00:38:50But we'll pay it back on Thursday when the G wins.
00:38:54The G?
00:38:56You mean that you want to borrow Fatima's money to put upon a horse?
00:38:59It's her dad's horse.
00:39:00The very idea of asking me for money to gamble upon racehorses.
00:39:04It isn't gambling.
00:39:06Arabo's a stone cold certainty. It can't.
00:39:08We watched the trial this morning.
00:39:09He did the gold cup distance in six minutes, twelve seconds.
00:39:11Carrying twelve and something.
00:39:12That's the record.
00:39:13And the price is ten to one if we get on now.
00:39:15If we can rake up fifty quid, we'll get five hundred back on Thursday.
00:39:19Girls, girls, girls, you're making me blench.
00:39:23Off to your rooms at once, at once.
00:39:25But Miss Fritton, it's an investment.
00:39:27At once, at once, do you hear?
00:39:47Ten to one.
00:39:50Four hundred pounds, ten to one.
00:39:54Must be about four thousand.
00:39:57I'm not going to be about four thousand two.
00:39:58I'm not going to be about four thousand four hundred percent.
00:40:00I'm not going to be about one.
00:40:15It's a dream.
00:40:16You're not going to be.
00:40:17I'm not going to be about one.
00:40:20No, I'm not going to be a dream.
00:40:25BIRDS CHIRP
00:40:55Miss Crawley, if you are practising for your tenderfoot bed,
00:41:20do you mind doing it elsewhere?
00:41:21Yes, Miss Riddler.
00:41:22Thank you, Miss Crawley.
00:41:25My name is Fritton, Millicent Fritton.
00:41:41I am headmistress here.
00:41:43Oh, no, lady.
00:41:44Oh, you do?
00:41:45Well, I'm afraid I don't know you.
00:41:48Do you mind telling me your name?
00:41:51Harry.
00:41:52Harry?
00:41:52Oh, Harry was the name of a boot boy.
00:41:56I engaged in 1940.
00:41:57That's me.
00:41:59Oh, I was right.
00:42:01Then tell me, are you still polishing?
00:42:05No.
00:42:07Well, of course, I don't wish to pry, but do you mind telling me what you do, do?
00:42:14I tried.
00:42:15Gin, nylons, anything.
00:42:17What do you think?
00:42:19Really?
00:42:21Well, in that case, I suppose you know something about the workings of the racing world.
00:42:29Racing?
00:42:29Brought up on it.
00:42:30My dad sold race cards.
00:42:33Funny, isn't it?
00:42:33Beginning like that and ending up in a public school.
00:42:35Yes, quite, but what I want from you now is some racing information.
00:42:43Do you want the winner?
00:42:45No, no, I already have the winner.
00:42:48What I want to know is how to invest money on it.
00:42:52Here.
00:42:52It's not this stone ginger that's been floating about, is it?
00:42:55You know, the Sultan's horse.
00:42:56It is the Sultan's horse.
00:42:58Oh, no trouble at all.
00:43:00You slip me in a Mazuma, I'll end up down to Elf.
00:43:02Same as I do for the girls.
00:43:04Girls?
00:43:05Are you telling me that you take betting money from my girls?
00:43:09What?
00:43:10If it weren't for this place, lady, how do you think old Elf would go nipping off with
00:43:12his wife and kids to the River Aero every year?
00:43:14Hey!
00:43:15Hey!
00:43:17How much do you want on?
00:43:18I'm not sure that I want anything on.
00:43:22But if I...
00:43:22If I were to put something on, it would be, uh...
00:43:27400 pounds.
00:43:30Come again?
00:43:31400 pounds, and I should run 10 to 1.
00:43:37What a dime, eh?
00:43:38What a dime.
00:43:39I just showed you I can be wrong about people, didn't it, eh?
00:43:41It just showed you.
00:43:42Cool.
00:43:43400 smackers, eh?
00:43:44400 smackers.
00:43:45Anti-post, I suppose.
00:43:46Anti-who?
00:43:47Anti-post.
00:43:48Back in the nag before the day had a race.
00:43:50Oh, a load of dough like that's going to take a lot of placing.
00:43:52Especially if you want call over odds.
00:43:53Must you keep pacing about like this?
00:43:55Oh, yes.
00:43:55I must pace.
00:43:56Oh, I must pace.
00:43:57If I don't pace, I can't concentrate.
00:43:59If I can't concentrate, I can't think.
00:44:00Now, if you want 10 to 1, you've got to get on quick.
00:44:02And in a folding money job this size, they want to know stuff's good.
00:44:05You'll have to come along with me, now.
00:44:07What?
00:44:09Me?
00:44:11Go with you?
00:44:12Yeah.
00:44:13Oh, dear.
00:44:14Well, eh, I suppose this is one occasion in life when one must sacrifice one's finer instincts.
00:44:23Here.
00:44:26Hey, on, Mum.
00:44:27I beg your pardon?
00:44:28Oh, yeah, there couldn't be no mistake there, could there, eh?
00:44:31What a couple of dames, eh?
00:44:33Look, I'd call a taxi and meet you outside the school gates in 10 minutes.
00:44:37Okie doke.
00:44:38Here.
00:44:38Oh, you know, funny, you and me meeting like this after all these years, eh?
00:44:44Extraordinary amusing, but never mind about that now.
00:44:46Right, right.
00:44:47We'll chew it over in the taxi, eh?
00:44:49Outside the gates, 10 minutes.
00:44:51Yes, and try not to be too conspicuous.
00:44:54Me?
00:44:56Conspicuous?
00:44:57Lady.
00:44:58I'm the invisible man.
00:44:59Yes, yes, Benny, I know.
00:45:05Your doctor, sir.
00:45:06There's nothing to...
00:45:07Bella, you haven't been expelled again.
00:45:10Oh, no, Pop, it's about the trial.
00:45:11I didn't think it was safe to phone.
00:45:13Hold on a minute, Benny.
00:45:14Bella's here.
00:45:15She's got news.
00:45:18Benny's scared because the price of out of boy has dropped.
00:45:20Well, no wonder.
00:45:22He did the gold cup distance in 6 minutes, 12 seconds, carrying 12-3.
00:45:2712-3, yeah.
00:45:28Uh, 12.
00:45:3012-3, that's impossible.
00:45:33No mistake, Pop.
00:45:34Are you absolutely sure?
00:45:35Absolutely.
00:45:37No, no, no, it can't, it can't.
00:45:39I mean, no, no, no.
00:45:40I mean, that would make out of boy 10 pounds better than the Prince.
00:45:43What on earth am I to do?
00:45:44I've got a fortune on the Prince.
00:45:45Can't you lay it off, Pop?
00:45:46What?
00:45:47The price of out of boy dropping every day and every single penny I've got on the Prince.
00:45:49Don't be a fool!
00:45:51The Prince has just got, got, got to win.
00:45:54Hello.
00:45:54Hello, Benny, Benny, come round at once.
00:45:56I've got news.
00:45:56No, no, no, no, not bad news.
00:45:59Disastrous!
00:46:00I don't know if I ever got into partnership with such a, such a nervous wreck.
00:46:04Couldn't we knobble, Arab boy, Pop?
00:46:06Don't you dare talk like that here.
00:46:15Well, we've got Arab boy's stable lad eating out of our hands.
00:46:18We could fix him with a hundred Nikkeis.
00:46:20It's falling off a log.
00:46:22I'm not listening.
00:46:24Fancy you suggesting schemes like that to your poor, distracted father.
00:46:27Go on, go on, go on, go on, back to school where you belong, you, you wicked girl.
00:46:33Okay.
00:46:35But think it over, Pop.
00:46:36You're in a spot.
00:46:37And we've got the contact and we've got the organisation.
00:46:41Talk it over with Benny.
00:46:43Leave this office at once!
00:46:45Well, if you change your mind, slip down tomorrow.
00:46:50There'll be some parents down for the hockey match.
00:46:52So long.
00:46:53Come on, girls.
00:47:04At the double, for goodness sake.
00:47:07Come on.
00:47:08You know the match starts in half an hour.
00:47:11Okay.
00:47:15Come on, girls.
00:47:16You really are the laziest lot I ever saw.
00:47:18Matron mended the net.
00:47:19You might at least show some sort of keenness about getting it out.
00:47:21Listen, we don't want to know.
00:47:24Well, really.
00:47:26My other school.
00:47:29You know, it's a funny thing.
00:47:31Surely this goes smaller than that one.
00:47:33Only two feet.
00:47:34It's our goal.
00:47:35But I don't understand.
00:47:36How do you know it's our goal?
00:47:37You haven't won the toss yet?
00:47:38We always win the toss.
00:47:40How?
00:47:41Hold this.
00:47:44Two heads?
00:47:46That's cheating.
00:47:47Knock it.
00:47:48No, I refuse to knock it.
00:47:49And anyway, what's the advantage you've got to change over for the second?
00:47:52Never is a second half.
00:47:53Oh, give it to me.
00:47:55Gracious me, I thought hockey was a game.
00:47:57But with you girls, it's more like jungle warfare.
00:47:59Lucretia, hold this thing tall at the back.
00:48:02Girls!
00:48:05Girls!
00:48:06Amanda!
00:48:07Come back!
00:48:08You never saw such girls.
00:48:09Come back this minute!
00:48:11Come back!
00:48:13Amanda!
00:48:15Girls!
00:48:16Girls!
00:48:17You really are a crummy lot!
00:48:24Girls!
00:48:26Girls!
00:48:27Where are you?
00:48:28Girls!
00:48:31Hello, darling.
00:48:34Hello.
00:48:34Who's this?
00:48:35It's Creepy, our new games mistress.
00:48:37Well, come on in, sports.
00:48:39Make yourself at home.
00:48:40Give her a drink, bottle-sir.
00:48:42Amanda, would you care to tell me what's going on here?
00:48:45Lunch!
00:48:45I've never seen anything so disgusting in my life.
00:48:56I had a girl's school, too.
00:48:57I shall go and tell Miss Fritton at once.
00:48:59Come in.
00:49:13Miss Fritton, I just had to see you.
00:49:15You've no idea what's going on in the summer house.
00:49:17There are two strange men in there.
00:49:18It's practically an orgy.
00:49:20Why, what are you saying, Miss Crawley?
00:49:21What are they doing?
00:49:22They're having a French lunch.
00:49:28The Lotus Eaters.
00:49:29The what?
00:49:30The Lotus Eaters.
00:49:31They meet and discuss things, I believe.
00:49:34There's Mr. Robottom Smith.
00:49:35He's our gardener.
00:49:36Then Mr. Woodley.
00:49:37He's our fencing master.
00:49:38They used to be with the Ministry of Education.
00:49:40So, you see, there's nothing to worry about, Miss Crawley.
00:49:43You mean their Ministry of Education inspectors?
00:49:45Well, they were, but they seem to like it better here.
00:49:50We were short of staff, you know, and somehow, well, it all fitted in.
00:49:54The girls adore them.
00:49:56Our situation has me bereft of words.
00:49:58I can only say, what can I say?
00:50:01Whatever you like, Miss Crawley, only please.
00:50:04Ah, that must be our girls giving a rousing welcome to their opponents.
00:50:15Well, now, Miss Crawley, I've given you a congee.
00:50:24Your place is on the hockey field.
00:50:27Yes, Miss Fritton.
00:50:40Psst!
00:50:42What on earth are you doing here?
00:50:44And will you please knock before entering?
00:50:46No!
00:50:47I don't want nobody to see me.
00:50:49Here, there's something going on in this joint you want to know about.
00:50:52Isn't there always?
00:50:53It's this letter.
00:50:54I opened it this afternoon.
00:50:56Posted in the school box by one of your mistresses.
00:50:58Tell me, do you always open the school correspondence?
00:51:01Oh, not all of it.
00:51:03Give me that letter at once.
00:51:08What's this?
00:51:09To Superintendent Kemp Bird.
00:51:11Barchester Constabulary, Barchester.
00:51:12It's from Miss Crawley.
00:51:15But it's signed Sergeant Gates.
00:51:17Ah, that's her, see?
00:51:20Rees and Trinians, I have to report.
00:51:22Do you mean that this woman is a detective?
00:51:25Copper's Nark in skirts.
00:51:28Oh, dear.
00:51:29Oh, but this is terrible.
00:51:31Rees and Trinians, I have to report the following.
00:51:32That there is an illicit still on the premises.
00:51:36It ain't a still.
00:51:37It's homemade gadget for making bathtub gin.
00:51:40There is a man here called Flash Harry, who...
00:51:44Is that, uh...
00:51:46Yeah.
00:51:47But she no right to call me that in official documents.
00:51:50Who acts as a contact man.
00:51:52That's a lie.
00:51:53I'm a go-between.
00:51:54And gambling is rife in the school.
00:51:56And there is a complete racing service.
00:52:01Got...
00:52:01What have you got in your hair?
00:52:05Honey and flowers.
00:52:07Well, do you mind putting on your hat?
00:52:15I cannot stand it much longer.
00:52:17No woman has suffered so much for love.
00:52:21Signed Ruby.
00:52:23And followed by five crosses.
00:52:25You know, it's my deduction that that's a private signal between him and her.
00:52:29Really, the sheer effrontery of sending a private detective here.
00:52:32Well, it's a blooming nerve.
00:52:34Might be no murders here.
00:52:35Not so far.
00:52:36What are you going to do about it?
00:52:37I don't know.
00:52:38I really don't know.
00:52:40Want me to fix her?
00:52:41Certainly not.
00:52:43What do you mean, fix her?
00:52:45Chakarad.
00:52:46Oh, is that all?
00:52:47No, I think in a hole that would only precipitate trouble.
00:52:49I think the best thing to do is just to ignore her.
00:52:51Tear up that letter.
00:52:52Get rid of that contraption in the laboratory.
00:52:54And you must take a holiday in Southend.
00:52:56I don't like Southend.
00:52:57Oh, well, wherever you wish to go.
00:52:58And meanwhile, although I strongly disapprove of your opening letters,
00:53:01I'm prepared to make an exception in the case of Miss Crawley.
00:53:05Leave her the flash.
00:53:16Sit down, Pop.
00:53:23I figured when I got your message, you'd come round in my way of thinking,
00:53:26so I got the gang together.
00:53:27Oh, you did.
00:53:28And we've got it all laid on the line.
00:53:29A man to here takes Bert, the stable boy, to the flicks tonight,
00:53:32and then she swings it on him.
00:53:33A hundred pounds an hour and another hundred when the prince wins.
00:53:36Two hundred quid?
00:53:37What are you proposing that this, uh, this Bert should do?
00:53:43Can you get hold of a horse box?
00:53:45Why?
00:53:46Well, send it to the school riding stables outside the village at four tomorrow.
00:53:49Air a boy will be in number one box.
00:53:50Are you, are you suggesting that we, we should steal the horse?
00:53:56No, borrow it.
00:53:58Borrow it?
00:53:59Just for a couple of days.
00:54:00You really want the prince to win, don't you?
00:54:02Get cracking, sisters.
00:54:04We've got to win this cup.
00:54:05Stick around, Pop, and see some hot poppy.
00:54:10Real chipper the old block she is.
00:54:12What a girl.
00:54:13Don't say that, Benny.
00:54:13Don't say that.
00:54:14It makes my blood run cold.
00:54:21She'll be a very frozen fixture.
00:54:23I'm sure, I'm sure we'll look forward to it.
00:54:25Yes, yes.
00:54:28Come on.
00:54:30How does it do?
00:54:32T-O-U-D-H
00:54:35V-A-V-I-E-H
00:54:39Our babies
00:54:41Don't say it!
00:54:44Heads
00:54:47Ten-one of these films, place your bets now.
00:54:56Watch your nice, young birds.
00:55:00Did you see that?
00:55:08Did you see what that girl did to the referee?
00:55:11Yes, yes, indeed.
00:55:12And a girl, a girl!
00:55:14But there's no referee!
00:55:16There's no referee!
00:55:17There's no referee!
00:55:19Ten-one of these films, place your bets now.
00:55:24Ten-one of these films, place your bets now.
00:55:26But you can't conceivably allow that girl.
00:55:29The referee's unconscious.
00:55:32We don't usually worry.
00:55:34I demand that another referee be appointed at once.
00:55:39Ten-one of these films, ten-one.
00:55:41Ten-one of these films, ten-one of these films, ten-one of these films.
00:55:47Look what's going on over there.
00:55:48Look at that girl with the crookie mallet.
00:55:50If you're going to point your referee at once, I shall stop the game.
00:55:53I've never seen such an exhibition of savagery.
00:56:00I shall stop it at once.
00:56:02And it won't.
00:56:32I congratulate you on a thoroughly sterling performance.
00:56:40And now, Arabella, as captain, I am delighted to present you with the Markham Challenge Trophy.
00:56:46Ah, a token presentation, of course, Arabella, as I shall be putting this into safe custody.
00:57:02All right, all right, I'll tell. Let me off this thing.
00:57:08Pull us down, Maudie.
00:57:12Bella and her gang are going to steal Arabella.
00:57:15They've gone out to the riding school. The stable boy's helping them.
00:57:19We can't let them get away with this. If Arabella doesn't run, we'll lose our money.
00:57:32We'll have to hurry up. Got my rope. Don't miss me any minute.
00:57:45Don't panic. Lie down. You got your story right?
00:57:48Yes, Thugs. I never saw them before. They tripped me with a wire.
00:57:52Got the mallet, Amanda? Yes.
00:57:53Mallet? Which one to mallet for?
00:57:54Well, we want to make it look good for your sake, don't we?
00:57:56But you're not going to hit me, no!
00:57:58It's okay. Amanda's doing it.
00:57:59No!
00:58:00Well, don't worry.
00:58:01Is he out?
00:58:06Mm-hmm.
00:58:07Yeah.
00:58:08Okay, Bella. We'll be there in 20 minutes.
00:58:18It's stop press now. It'll be headlines in the morning. I'm nervous, Benny.
00:58:23We get 60,000 if it comes off.
00:58:25And three years if it doesn't.
00:58:27Do you have to make jokes like that?
00:58:29I wasn't joking. I wish Sammy would ring.
00:58:32Well, it must have taken him a couple of hours to get the horse to his place.
00:58:36Sam! I thought I told you not to come near this office.
00:58:39Something's gone wrong, Garth. We went...
00:58:41Come on, I've got a couple of tickets on the eight o'clock plane to Paris.
00:58:47No, nothing like that, Governor. We haven't got the horse. When we got the riding stables, it wasn't there.
00:58:52That's right. We looked in the right box and all the other boxes. But there weren't no such animal.
00:58:58And you didn't see anything when you were dragged from the horse?
00:59:04Well, I just caught a glimpse of a man's Macintosh, that's all, sir.
00:59:07I see. What kind of a Macintosh?
00:59:10An old grey one, sir. I don't remember any more.
00:59:13All right, that'll do for now. I shall want to see you again later.
00:59:17Bring in Fred Smith, will you, Constable?
00:59:19Hey, Smith.
00:59:21How long has that lad been with you?
00:59:23About a year. He handles the horses well enough.
00:59:26What do you make of him, Doctor?
00:59:27Nothing fake about the way he was knocked out.
00:59:29Looked like a blow with a mallet or something. He certainly didn't do it himself.
00:59:33I just want to ask you one question, Smith.
00:59:39You were out on the downs at exercise with Fanning. Did you see anyone around?
00:59:43Oh, nobody, sir. Fanning dropped back on Attaboy.
00:59:46When I looked around, there was no sign of them or anyone else there.
00:59:49Except a bunch of girls in the distance, up riding from some school called St Trinian's.
00:59:54Oh, no.
00:59:57Sammy, it's me. But I was in bed.
01:00:00Of course I'm working.
01:00:02I'm in the sanny, Sammy.
01:00:05But I got hit on the head with a mallet.
01:00:07You too? What happened?
01:00:09At the hockey match. Haven't you had my report?
01:00:12I haven't had a line from you.
01:00:13Now, look, I'm on a whale of a case.
01:00:15A racehorse has been stolen.
01:00:17The Sultan of Makyard's Arab boy enter for the gold cup tomorrow.
01:00:20Now, listen to this carefully.
01:00:21Some of the St Trinian's girls were seen riding near the spot where the horse disappeared.
01:00:25I want you to find out who they were and what they were doing.
01:00:27Oh, I say, how jolly pulse-throbby. How and what they're up to?
01:00:31Yes, of course I'm going to try and find out, Sammy.
01:00:35No need to be so beastly.
01:00:37I say, Sammy, I know this is a frightfully important job, you know, for you and for me and everything.
01:00:43And if I sort of, well, you know, if I did pull it off, could it be wedding bells?
01:00:48If you don't, it'll be curtains.
01:00:50Oh, Sam.
01:00:52You know, Albertina, if anyone had said this would happen to me, I mean a jolly old school inspector strolling around with a smashing little French mistress.
01:01:00You make me laugh, Robbie.
01:01:02Do I?
01:01:03I suppose I do seem rather English to you at times, Albertina old scout.
01:01:07Only funny English, Robbie.
01:01:09I'm sorry.
01:01:10It's the Ministry of Edge, you know.
01:01:12It's difficult to get the old blood pounding uncontrollably after 14 years at a desk with only the odd day trip to Boulogne to give a chap a whiff of the joie de vivre.
01:01:20I love you for it, Robbie.
01:01:22By Jove.
01:01:23Are you ready?
01:01:24Come in here and have a Guinness.
01:01:32The drinks are over here.
01:01:34Aren't you going to turn on the lights?
01:01:36Oh, do you want me to?
01:01:38Not if you don't want to.
01:01:40Oh, I thought we might have a couple of boissons dans le noir sur la sofa.
01:01:46Do you love me, Robbie?
01:01:48Hey, come on.
01:01:50What was that?
01:01:52What was what?
01:01:54Robbie, something's breathing down my neck.
01:01:58By Jove, of course.
01:02:00In here.
01:02:02Ridiculous.
01:02:04What the blazes is all this?
01:02:10Oh, Woodley's coming through the woods with Amanda.
01:02:12Get that nagger out of here sharpish.
01:02:13If she gets her peepers on it, Bella will know in a flash.
01:02:15But where are we going to take him?
01:02:17Never mind that now.
01:02:18Let's get him out first.
01:02:19Don't say a word to Amanda about this, will you?
01:02:21Why not?
01:02:22Because he's got to win tomorrow.
01:02:24I don't get the hang of this.
01:02:25Why should we keep quiet?
01:02:27Shall I fix him?
01:02:28Okay, Flash.
01:02:33What are you doing?
01:02:35Well, I'm hanged.
01:02:37Hello?
01:02:38Hello?
01:02:39Mr. Elf?
01:02:40The bookmaker?
01:02:42This is Miss Fritton, of St. Rinnion speaking.
01:02:45I've just read in the paper that Arab Boy has disappeared.
01:02:50Bad luck is not the word for it, Mr. Elf.
01:02:52I was positively counting on collecting £4,000 from you.
01:02:55Yes.
01:02:56Well, now, look, Mr. Elf, if the horse doesn't turn up, would you please be good enough to
01:03:01return me my £400 to reach me by Friday morning?
01:03:04You see, I...
01:03:05What?
01:03:07I don't quite follow you, Mr. Elf.
01:03:10I don't get what back.
01:03:12Now, please, please, don't be absurd, my good man.
01:03:16If I go into a telephone booth and make a call, and the horse or the person I'm calling
01:03:20is not there, well, I simply press button B, and I get...
01:03:24Hadn't you read our rules?
01:03:26Rules?
01:03:27Rules?
01:03:28But I'm not interested in your rules.
01:03:29I want my money back.
01:03:30Well, in that case, you'd better start looking for the horse.
01:03:33Now, where do you expect me to go looking for a horse?
01:03:39Mr. Elf?
01:03:41Operator?
01:03:43Operator?
01:03:45Op...
01:04:03Operator?
01:04:04Doctor?
01:04:18Out of the crowd?
01:04:20Could I speak to you, Miss Written?
01:04:25not just now miss crawley i must i beg your pardon well there's something i've got to ask you
01:04:32could you tell me please which girls went riding this morning miss crawley this is neither the
01:04:37place nor the time why well some of the girls were on the dance this morning when a racehorse
01:04:45disappeared well well i thought they might have seen something and if they did well i thought
01:04:54they might like to help the police i mean guides honor we're all girl guides aren't we are we
01:05:00some of us may have aspired beyond that happy state miss crawley the girls are in bed and i'm
01:05:05certainly not going to disturb them in order to satisfy your morbid curiosity yes but i will you
01:05:09kindly return to the sanatorium and attend to what concerns you but it does concern yes miss crawley
01:05:14nothing miss written
01:05:18no
01:05:25no
01:05:29no
01:05:35no
01:05:39no
01:05:43Girls, girls, you know perfectly well that pets are not allowed in dormitories.
01:06:01And under the same rule, Mr. Harry, I doubt if you should be here either.
01:06:04Am I right in thinking that this animal here is Arab boy?
01:06:07Yes, Miss Fritton.
01:06:09Harry.
01:06:09Harry, now look me in the eyes and tell me the truth, Harry.
01:06:14Have you had anything to do with this?
01:06:16Me?
01:06:17Oh, I do.
01:06:19I'm glad, Harry.
01:06:20Bella pinched him because she wanted her dad's horse to win.
01:06:24But we nicked in and swiped him from her, didn't we?
01:06:27Yay!
01:06:28Yes!
01:06:28Why didn't you take the animal back to the stables?
01:06:31Why bring him here?
01:06:32Because if we took him back now, they'd noddle him.
01:06:35What if the stable boys is in their pay?
01:06:37Then surely the most sensible thing would have been to have phoned the police and told them about that.
01:06:41Just what I told them?
01:06:42You can't go dragging a reputable racehorse like him from fillet to post.
01:06:46Certainly not.
01:06:49How do you propose to get him back?
01:06:52Fatima's father arrives at London Airport at six in the morning.
01:06:55She's going to phone him.
01:06:57What?
01:06:57And tell him the horse is here and of half the school appearing in the juvenile courts?
01:07:01Oh, she's right, you know.
01:07:02We don't want our good name, Drag Fruit of Mud.
01:07:04Of course not.
01:07:05Now, there is only one thing to do.
01:07:07The animal must be taken out of here secretly at dawn.
01:07:09Fatima can ride him back to the stables and say that she found him stringing.
01:07:13That's a wizard idea!
01:07:15Yes!
01:07:16Meanwhile, I shall telephone to the police, anonymously Harry, and tell them about that stable boy.
01:07:21Oh, what a dying way.
01:07:22Now set your alarms, girls, for six o'clock.
01:07:25Yes, Miss Whitten!
01:07:26And I want every girl here to promise on her guide's honour not to be the word about this.
01:07:33We promise, Miss Whitten!
01:07:34Moreover, it's parents' day tomorrow, so I want every single shred of evidence that the horse has been here removed.
01:07:40Yes, Miss Whitten!
01:07:41Now off to your beds at once, girls, as quickly as you can.
01:07:44And remember, that St. Trinian's expects that every fourth-form girl tomorrow morning will do her duty.
01:07:52Yes, Miss Whitten!
01:07:54Good night, girls!
01:07:55Good night!
01:07:55Good night!
01:07:56Good night, Miss Whitten!
01:07:56Good night!
01:07:57Good night, lady!
01:07:58Good night!
01:07:59Harry, this way!
01:08:00Oh, of course!
01:08:01Vela!
01:08:27Vela, wake up!
01:08:28Oh, our brain, you!
01:08:30Oh, I've got something to tell you.
01:08:31The fourth-form's got a horse in the dorm.
01:08:33You're crazy!
01:08:34See for yourself.
01:08:35It's looking out of the window.
01:08:36Do you think it's Arab Boy?
01:08:51I say, look at Arab Boy.
01:08:53He's got his head out the window.
01:08:55Get it back, quickly!
01:08:56Harry, wake up!
01:08:57Look at that!
01:08:57Why are you?
01:08:58Oh, look!
01:08:58Oh, look!
01:08:58Oh, look!
01:08:59Oh, look!
01:08:59Oh, look!
01:09:00Oh, look!
01:09:00Oh, look!
01:09:00Oh, look!
01:09:00Oh, look!
01:09:01Oh, look!
01:09:01Oh, no, don't worry, Pop.
01:09:03He's in that dormitory to stay.
01:09:05But we're going to need help when things hot up.
01:09:07Well, how long will it be?
01:09:10Oh, you better warn the boys it's parents' day today, Pop.
01:09:12We can't have the police dragged into this.
01:09:14Okay, we'll hold the fort till then.
01:09:16So long.
01:09:16Okay, they're on the way.
01:09:18Okay, they're on the way.
01:09:34Where's Gladys?
01:09:35Working on the dormitory door.
01:09:37Celeste, you go down and see if the post is clear.
01:09:39It's locked!
01:09:45It can't be!
01:09:45No!
01:09:46Who's done that?
01:09:47Blimey!
01:09:49How's it going, kids?
01:09:50Okay, it'll take a tank to get out of there.
01:09:52Ladies and gentlemen, we are faced with open rebellion.
01:10:04The sixth form have imprisoned the fourth form in their dormitory, I regret to say, with a racehorse.
01:10:08Not this Arab boy.
01:10:09It's this Arab boy, and it is absolutely imperative that it runs today for all our sakes.
01:10:13Our sakes?
01:10:14Yes, you see, I have put the school funds on it.
01:10:16What?
01:10:16So if you want to correct your salaries, you must help to release it.
01:10:19That's come to this, the jolly old stipend on a non-runner.
01:10:22Look, I propose to storm the barricades.
01:10:24I'm sure that if we make one consorted charge, we shall carry the day.
01:10:28So come along, arm yourselves and follow me.
01:10:30There is not one moment to lose.
01:10:33You see, I think the men should go first.
01:10:36They did last time when the bishop came, you remember?
01:10:37Oh, I say, look here, Ashbury.
01:10:40I say, shall we not have frightful war cries?
01:10:44Well, that, I feel, is optional.
01:10:45But remember Napoleon's precept, that the essence of attack is surprise.
01:10:49Come on, now, quietly, quickly.
01:10:51Shh.
01:10:57Are you ready?
01:10:58Yes.
01:10:59Advance!
01:11:00Ah!
01:11:01Ah!
01:11:02Ah!
01:11:03Ah!
01:11:04Ah!
01:11:05Ah!
01:11:06Ah!
01:11:07Ah!
01:11:08Ah!
01:11:09Ah!
01:11:10Ah!
01:11:11Ah!
01:11:12Ah!
01:11:13Ah!
01:11:14Ah!
01:11:15Ah!
01:11:16Ah!
01:11:17Ah!
01:11:18Ah!
01:11:19Ah!
01:11:23Ah!
01:11:28Ah!
01:11:30Do you think it's making Britters?
01:11:32I've got to.
01:11:33I've got to.
01:11:34What on Earth is happening?
01:11:35Is anything wrong?
01:11:36The natives of Resernald's Port!
01:11:38Miss Crawley, do you still wish to question the girls about that race horse?
01:11:42What I only thought.
01:11:43It's the sixth form you want, Miss Crawley.
01:11:46Get upstairs now.
01:11:47Go quickly, quickly.
01:11:48Perhaps I should.
01:11:50Believe me, you should.
01:11:54Collect her in 30 seconds.
01:11:57Who's that?
01:11:59Harry.
01:12:08Here.
01:12:09It's people.
01:12:10What?
01:12:11The parents are ready.
01:12:11We can't possibly let them see us like this.
01:12:14Miss Buckland, get the Brownies campfire going at once.
01:12:17Yes, Miss Fritton.
01:12:19Come on, Woodley.
01:12:20Here.
01:12:21What are we going to do about that mob upstairs?
01:12:24When the parents are safe around the Brownies campfire,
01:12:26we'll renew the attack.
01:12:28But this time, we'll be properly armed.
01:12:30Great Scott, the Sulu War.
01:12:32Gangway, please. Gangway.
01:12:36I don't wait.
01:12:37Not cold.
01:12:38What do I do with her?
01:12:39Put her in my bathroom and lock the door.
01:12:42Lock the door?
01:12:42Yes, Miss Crawley is a police officer in disguise.
01:12:46All right, George, we're for it now.
01:12:47This means a hallway for me.
01:12:49You may not be the only one, Miss Waters.
01:12:51Now, let me see.
01:12:52Harry, you appear to be the only one unscathed.
01:12:54Keep the parents in vain until the rest of us get cleaned up.
01:12:56Okay, lady.
01:12:57And I feel sure that if we keep our heads,
01:12:59complete disaster may yet be averted.
01:13:08Oh, I'm very sorry, sir.
01:13:09Gentlemen.
01:13:10But you can't come in here.
01:13:12Okay, son.
01:13:12No, not now.
01:13:13Not now?
01:13:14No, you don't want to worry about that.
01:13:15But there's nothing in here of interest to you.
01:13:17You parents.
01:13:18It's outside.
01:13:19What is?
01:13:20The Brownies campfire.
01:13:21Yeah, are you taking the rise off us?
01:13:23No.
01:13:23Straight up.
01:13:24And a Bernie, all good stuff.
01:13:25No rubbish.
01:13:26Hold it, boys.
01:13:29Do you know where my daughter is?
01:13:31Upstairs, Mr. Fritton.
01:13:32Wait here, Benny.
01:13:38You a teacher?
01:13:41In a way.
01:13:47Never bargained for the sort of cable, Woodley.
01:13:49No.
01:13:50Here.
01:13:57Them people outside.
01:13:59They ain't parents.
01:14:00Your brother's with them.
01:14:01He's out there with a mob of his oppos.
01:14:04What on earth is he doing here?
01:14:05Search me.
01:14:09Good morning, Millicent.
01:14:11I'd like a few words with you.
01:14:13And I'd like more than a few with you.
01:14:17Leave us, Harry.
01:14:18I wish to speak with my brother alone.
01:14:20How you have the audacity, Clarence, to show your face in here today.
01:14:27After all that you've done to me, I do not know.
01:14:29You put Bella up to this because you wanted your horse to win today.
01:14:32You don't give a fig what happens to my school.
01:14:35If this comes out, my girls will be dragged through the police courts.
01:14:38Clarence, you will order them to stop this criminal lunacy at once.
01:14:50Millie, I stand to lose a fortune if ever a boy gets there and wins this afternoon.
01:14:57I am concerned with the reputation of my school.
01:15:00Oh, I shall never, never forgive you, Clarence, that you should do this to me on Parents' Day.
01:15:06Parents' Day of all days.
01:15:07Well, I've brought the boys down, suitably dressed they can mix with your parents.
01:15:11Why did you bring them here at all?
01:15:12To make sure that that horse stays here till after the race.
01:15:16It is leaving here in time for the race.
01:15:18I shall see to that.
01:15:20And I'll see that it doesn't.
01:15:22I'm sorry you're so unreasonable, Millicent.
01:15:24I don't know who you're trying to phone, but I'm afraid you'll find you've been cut off.
01:15:38Sam, Jude, Bill.
01:15:39Three more of you boys, come with me, will you?
01:15:52What's happening, Flory?
01:15:53The Sikhs are holding the corridors, and that his father brought a gang to help them.
01:15:57Oh, God.
01:15:58Look, there's some of them now.
01:16:08Are you parents?
01:16:09That's right.
01:16:10Okay.
01:16:23Morning.
01:16:23Brownie's campfire's first on the court, straight down that path, back of them trees.
01:16:27You can't miss it.
01:16:28Brownie's campfire, straight down that path, back of them trees.
01:16:31We can't be right there.
01:16:31Oh, you must have missed the Brownie's campfire.
01:16:33Surely we can see, Miss Keaton.
01:16:34I said the Brownie's campfire, straight down that path, back of them trees.
01:16:37You can't miss it.
01:16:44There it goes.
01:16:45I say, Morrie, suppose we could rope all those blankets together.
01:16:51What for?
01:16:51I bet we could do it.
01:16:53If we could flip a message through to Miss Frinton to create a diversion, and draw those men off.
01:16:58Hi, Jill.
01:16:59Smoke bombs forward.
01:17:00We'll make a smoke screen, and then drop Flory over with a message.
01:17:04Flory!
01:17:04Parent?
01:17:07Mercifully, no.
01:17:10I am from the Ministry of Education.
01:17:11Well, what business have you got here?
01:17:13I am instructed on higher authority to inspect the school.
01:17:16Well, you picked a nice day for it.
01:17:18Okay.
01:17:22Open fire!
01:17:27What are them kids after chucking them things?
01:17:29This way for the Brownie's campfire.
01:17:31Hurry along, please.
01:17:32Pass along.
01:17:33Pass right down the path there.
01:17:35Get in them trees.
01:17:36Any more for the Brownie's campfire?
01:17:39Show's just about to start.
01:17:40Roll up for the Brownie's campfire.
01:17:43Any more for the blummin' Brownie's campfire?
01:17:49This way for the Brownie's campfire.
01:17:51Greatest show on earth.
01:17:52This way for the Brownie's campfire.
01:17:55I have no wish to see the Brownie's campfire.
01:17:58I haven't the remotest idea who you are, but I am from the Ministry of Education.
01:18:02Oh.
01:18:03Oh, in that case, I'll give you a bum steer, sir.
01:18:06It's straight down that path you want for your mates.
01:18:09Mates?
01:18:10Yeah.
01:18:10Robbie Smith and Old Woodley.
01:18:11In the summer house, down by the lake.
01:18:14You can't miss it.
01:18:16I'd like to, but under the circumstances, I think I'd better not.
01:18:22You're welcome.
01:18:24Miss White, by the Brownie's campfire, though the fun of the fair...
01:18:27At all costs, we must keep our heads and reconsider our strategy.
01:18:30It'd be useless to attempt another attack now.
01:18:31A handful of mere women against a gang of hooligans.
01:18:34Miss Britten, Miss Britten, Miss Britten, Miss Britten, what is it?
01:18:37I've got a message from the beleaguered forces.
01:18:38Yes, yes.
01:18:39Jackie West says she's got a plan to get the horse away.
01:18:41If you can create a diversion and draw the men off.
01:18:43What plan?
01:18:44What diversion?
01:18:45Apart from June doing a fan dance, I can't think of anything.
01:18:48What?
01:18:49I think she can.
01:18:51What do I hear?
01:18:52The old girls!
01:18:53The old girls!
01:18:54The first for us!
01:18:56Yes!
01:19:00And all in primed condition.
01:19:03We need every man can spare to deal with this.
01:19:31Sam, Joe, all of you, come with me, quick.
01:19:33Come on, girls.
01:19:35Let's get the blankets quick.
01:19:59Hurry up.
01:20:00I want you to change your cases.
01:20:01Go away, girls.
01:20:02Can we change yours in with you?
01:20:03I can't do this, Michael.
01:20:05Look, I'll give you some money.
01:20:05No, I can't.
01:20:06Oh, please.
01:20:09Hey, Butch!
01:20:09Butch!
01:20:10Come on, run as big as you can.
01:20:11No, no, you stay there, Spider.
01:20:12Quick, come on, men, come on!
01:20:14Hurry up, quick!
01:20:15Right, wheel him in!
01:20:16Come on, Arrowboy!
01:20:18Come on, we've got to get you to the base!
01:20:21Come on, boy!
01:20:22Of course it's not quite roadie nor Cheltenham, my dear,
01:20:24but it has its points.
01:20:26Indeed, mine.
01:20:26This may be you, girls!
01:20:42Don't let them up!
01:20:44Block the stairs!
01:20:47Hold!
01:20:48She's tremendous!
01:20:51Come on!
01:20:52She's
01:20:53b
01:21:16Go down there, boy.
01:21:40Take a dig, there, boy.
01:21:46The horses are just leaving the paddock now.
01:21:57Whatever throws this great race may provide,
01:21:59they can't compare with the excitement we've experienced here in the past few minutes.
01:22:03The Sultan of Macad's Arab boy, for whom a nationwide search has been going on for the past 24 hours,
01:22:07made a sensational appearance on the course 10 minutes ago.
01:22:11Here he is leaving the paddock now.
01:22:13I've just asked Inspector Kemp Byrd of the Barchester Constabulary
01:22:16how he managed to trace the missing animal,
01:22:19but he told me he's not yet in a position to make a statement.
01:22:27And they're off.
01:22:28It's a first-last start for this most coveted of all honours in national hunt racing.
01:22:32Mordonia's well away, so is Blue Prince.
01:22:34They're coming up to the first fence.
01:22:36Come on.
01:22:37Mordonia jumped that well.
01:22:38Mayday and Arab boy are well there.
01:22:39He's 9'4". I'm jumping like a breeze.
01:22:40As they approach the second fence, something...
01:22:43Matter of fact, I think you chaps are batting on a pretty good wicked.
01:22:46Well, any time you care to join us, old man.
01:22:48It only means getting in another bed.
01:22:51It's all attempted, old man.
01:22:53It's all attempted.
01:22:55He's moving up.
01:22:56Come on, Arab boy!
01:22:57Arab boy's going into third place now, as they come to the next fence.
01:23:02There are three horses out in front.
01:23:03Mordonia, Blue Prince, and Arab boy.
01:23:05Nothing else in it.
01:23:06It looks to me like a three-horse race.
01:23:07Now Mordonia's falling back.
01:23:10Blue Prince is moving into first place, followed by Arab boy as they come round the bend into the home stretch.
01:23:16They're heading for home now, and it's Arab boy shying away.
01:23:19Blue Prince is drawing level again as they come up to the last fence.
01:23:22They jump that neck and neck.
01:23:23There are only two horses in it now.
01:23:25Arab boy's taking the lead.
01:23:26With only 50 yards to go, it's Arab boy from Blue Prince.
01:23:29Arab boy's won the children of gold club.
01:23:31After this, I shouldn't dream about it, staying here another hour.
01:23:37I should think not after what we've witnessed today.
01:23:39I was horrified.
01:23:40Quite horrified.
01:23:41You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
01:23:42I shudder when I think of what poor Mona has suffered.
01:23:45Here.
01:23:45It's one.
01:23:46Arab boy.
01:23:47It's one.
01:23:48Really, Harry?
01:23:50Oh, in that case, ladies and gentlemen, courtesy forbids me to tell you exactly where you can send your daughters.
01:23:57Will you excuse me?
01:23:57Come with me, Harry.
01:24:01I think we have an appointment with Mr. Alf.
01:24:04Yeah.
01:24:04No river air for him this year.
01:24:06I...
01:24:20I was more than delighted to accept your headmistress's invitation to come here tonight to present your annual awards.
01:24:28But for the resource of your fourth form, I should not have won the race today.
01:24:33It is therefore, with the greatest pleasure, that I begin these proceedings by presenting this cup for good conduct,
01:24:45which I understand has not been presented since 1927, to Jacqueline West.
01:24:56Miss Wilson!
01:24:57Miss Wilson!
01:24:59Miss Wilson, put on these bikes!
01:25:01Miss Wilson!
01:25:01Miss Wilson, I've turned this out of your hands, haven't you?
01:25:07Miss Wilson, Miss Wilson, Miss Wilson.
01:25:13Girls, girls, girls, this really is too much.
01:25:17Goodness knows the honour of the school has suffered enough for one day,
01:25:19and don't imagine for one moment that I don't know who did it.
01:25:22But in view of the occasion, I am going to appeal to your sporting instincts to return that cup.
01:25:29And in order that the girls may suffer no ignominy,
01:25:31I am going to have the lights put out for 30 seconds,
01:25:34in order to allow them to return it unseen.
01:25:38Right, Miss Wilson?
01:25:40Right-ho!
01:25:40I'll take it, what!
01:25:41Woooo-hoo!
01:25:50You Ð cream!
01:25:51You're dry!
01:25:52You're dry!
01:25:53You're dry!
01:25:54You're dry!
01:25:54You're dry!
01:25:56You're dry!
01:25:59You're dry!
01:26:00Yeah, that's great!