The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

Alphonse of Monte Carlo

Amber Spottiswood

'Flash' Harry

Sir Horace, the Minister

Manton Bassett

Georgina

Policeman

Culpepper Brown

Truelove

Noakes

Leonard Edwards (as Desmond Walter Ellis)

Big Jim

William (Willy the Jelly-Man)

Maxie

Chips

Pakistani Porter

Marcia Askett

Mabel Radnage

Veronica Bledlow

Albertine

Magda O'Riley (as Maggie McGrath)

Drunken Dolly

Miss Brenner

Butters

The Liftman

Gore-Blackwood

Chairman

Monty

Hutch

Mr. Parker

Dr. Judd

Tango Dancer

Tango Dancer

The Voice (voice)

Schoolgirl

Man (uncredited)

Child (uncredited)

Minor Role (uncredited)

Schoolgirl

George Cole (Flash Harry) and Michael Ripper (Eric the liftman) are the only actors to appear in all four of the original "St. Trinian's" films.

The part of Butters was first offered to Thorley Walters, who played the role in The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960) and who subsequently played Mr Culpepper-Brown in The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980).

When the St. Trinian's school library is being moved into the new building, the French Mistress (played by Carole Ann Ford) accidentally drops four paperbacks from a pile of books, and the camera zooms in on their covers: The Perfumed Garden, by Cheikh Nefzaoui; Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence; The Carpetbaggers, by Harold Robbins; and Fanny Hill, by John Cleland. All four are erotic classics with scandalous reputations, regarded (at the time) as suitable only for men - hence the joke of their being seen in a girls' school. The last three had had recent movie adaptations in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955), The Carpetbaggers (1964), and Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1964); and the D H Lawrence novel had recently been the subject of a sensational criminal trial in London, in 1963, in which the publisher had been prosecuted for obscenity.

When Harry is in the signal box to stop the robber's train he pulls a lever back toward him and we then see the signal drop to danger. After the girls have uncoupled the wagon, he pushes the lever forward again and the signal returns to clear. These actions are the wrong way round. Signal levers are pulled back to raise the signal to clear, pushed forward again to return to danger.

Flash Harry's surname is said to be Hackett. However, in both Blue Murder at St. Trinian's and The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's, it was given as Edwards.

At the board meeting, the position of the carafes, glasses and ashtrays varies between the general view and the close-ups.

Alphonse of Monte Carlo: [about his two daughters education] The poor lambs were only receiving the three R's, so to speak.