The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery 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 of the Harold Wilson government and its support of the comprehensive school system. Directed by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat with a script by Sidney and Leslie Gilliat, it was the last in the original series of four films and the only one to be made in colour. It retained George Cole, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Michael
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).