Frank Launder – MRQE

The Wildcats of St. Trinian’s

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The girls of St. Trinian’s decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.

The Blue Lagoon

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the Victorian period two British children are the survivors of a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness, and the bounty of their remote paradise.

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The fourth form monsters’ latest trick is their best ever they have burned down St Trinians school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge’s infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinians regroup with gleeful anticipation.

Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty’s prison, the St Trinian’s girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can’t win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian’s have succeeded in endangering European relations.

Geordie

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as “Wee Geordie” in the USA.

The Belles of St. Trinian’s

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian’s are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.

Folly to Be Wise

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about – though the audience obviously thinks differently.

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva – though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

The Happiest Days of Your Life

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it’s an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.

Captain Boycott

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what’s left on a horse race.