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
1950s in film peak of his craft, with films such as "Strangers on a Train" (1951), "Dial M for Murder" (1954), "Rear Window" (1954), "To Catch a Thief" (1955), "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), "Vertigo" (1958), and "North by Northwest" (1959), with James Stewart and Grace Kelly starring in three each. The Bengali Indian director Satyajit Ray, who began his career in the 1950s, was also at the peak of his career during this decade, with films such as "The Apu Trilogy" (1955–1959), "Jalsaghar" (1958), and "Parash Pathar" (1958). 1950s in film The decade of the 1950s in film involved many