The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery of the moor from Longmoor. This was previously a Boys own Preparatory school based at Burghclere near Newbury, but had coincidentally merged with a Girls Preparatory School at the location at Liss 9 months prior to the making of the film The film was among the 15 most popular movies at the British box office in 1966. The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a British film comedy set in the fictional St Trinian's School, released in 1966, three years after the Great Train Robbery had taken place. It also parodies the technocratic ideas
Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films follows "Madeleine," or the Albert Hall sequence in the 1956 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Some Hitchcock films include use of the number 13, popularly an "unlucky number." "Number 13" is also the title of an unfinished Hitchcock film which would have been his directorial debut. Tennis is often mentioned in Hitchcock films. In "Strangers on a Train", the main character is a tennis player. In "Dial M for Murder", Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) is an ex-tennis player. In "Rebecca", the second Mrs. DeWinter (Joan Fontaine) claims to be taking tennis lessons from Max DeWinter (Laurence Olivier).