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
Great Train Robbery (1963) when he had been caught with a stolen car and had met Goody at a nightclub in Soho. Field was called upon to assist in Goody's defence in the aftermath of the "Airport Job", which was a robbery carried out on 27 November 1962 at BOAC Comet House, Hatton Cross, London Airport. This was the big practice robbery that the South West Gang had done before the Great Train Robbery. Field was successful in arranging bail for Goody and Charlie Wilson. In 2014, Douglas Gordon Goody revealed to journalists the name of "The Ulsterman" as Patrick McKenna, a 43-year-old postal