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Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds

Terry Deary

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The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) in Movies

Sep 6, 2020

Fourth St Trinian's film is a knockabout farce which has not aged at all well. Crooks hide the loot from a train robbery (such things were topical at the time) in a disused building, which is then taken over by St Trinian's school as their new premises. Can the villains retrieve the swag without anyone noticing?

Notably pragmatic (to the point of ruthlessness) in pursuit of its gags: there is shotgun satire of politicians, civil servants, the private school system, and various topical issues (there are some very dodgy jokes about immigration and racial minorities). Even more cartoony than a Carry On film, and increasingly frantic as it goes on, it does have a remarkable cast of well-known faces from British films of its period, but the jokes are thinner on the ground than one might hope for given the talent involved. Has a certain historical interest these days but it's awkward to watch as much as entertaining.