Blue Murder At St Trinian's is the 2nd of the St Trinian's films by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat and it came out in 1957. It looks like the 2009 dvd is getting scarce in the US. I see it for $20 bucks, or more, on Amazon. There is a nice British set of the first four films available on Amazon for about the same price. It's not the same region as the US dvd so you would need an all region player or use some software to copy it onto a dvd that you can play. Luckily for me NetFlix had the first three of the St Trinian's films but not the fourth. Amazon has digital copies of them.
The movie starts with Miss Fritton in jail. Alastair Sims still plays the school head mistress but he only appears briefly at the end of the film. Flash Harry is running a marriage agency that hooks up young ladies from the school with rich men. An Italian Count would like to meet some of the girls and a tour is arranged to take them to Italy. Terry Thomas is the reluctant tour bus operator who gets tricked into taking the girls on a trip across Europe. The girls plays some sports along their path of destruction.. The French team is beaten severely and lose the match too. I liked the headline on the newspaper. That's the girls of St Trinian's below on the left and the poor French girls in the middle.
Lionel Jeffries plays the father of one of the girls at St Trinian's and he's also a crook. He steals some diamonds, there's a reward of 10000 British Pounds, and takes it on the lam. He tries to hide at the school. Flash Harry blackmails Lionel into dressing up as a woman and taking the girls on their tour across Europe. The police are right behind but like cops in comedies they're poor at their jobs. The same police woman who tried to infiltrate the school last time tries it again. She has a bit of a fling with Terry Thomas but dumps him at the end of the movie. Sadly that police lady won't ever get some from the jerk she fancies. I've already seen the third movie. The girls kick some Italian ass in waterpolo and the Count gets a beautiful girl who wants to marry rich. He survives the meeting with the girls. The diamonds are recovered and the reward winds up in Miss Fritton's hands, which are now free from the clink. Alastair Sims pops in for the last scene when the girls return to the school from their adventure. I had a laugh.
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