Cinema: Gymslip Brigade

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (Continental). "Is it absolutely necess'ry to have all these young ladies in court?"

"I fear it is, m'lord."

"Then please put the fans on."

The young ladies in question are the infamous belles of St. Trinian's, a gymslip brigade of teacher's pests who terrorize one of the seamier seminaries in Britain's Poison Ivy League. The little horrors were hideously hilarious when they first came squiggling and splotching from the pen point of Cartoonist Ronald Searle. They even had a certain roachy charm in their first two films. But now the joke is as moldy as the girls—theater owners...

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