History Film / StTrinians

* {{Blackface}}: In the ''Great St Trinians Train Robbery'' Frankie Howard's character gets a face full of soot and he then uses it to impersonate a Pakistani worker (with a dreadful accent) to evade capture.

* BlackComedyRape: In the 2007 movie, Geoffrey Thwaites has a drink with his old lover, Miss Fritton, and wakes up naked in her bed the next morning.
** Note that the sex did not necessarily happen; Miss Fritton (played by Rupert Everett) euphemistically implies it, but the alcohol (its intensity boosted by an unspecified prescription medicine from her purse) knocked him out ''cold''. (And is not exactly known to necessarily be helpful in sexual situations.)

** When Thwaites and Camilla meet, she says "Another time!" and he answers "Another country!" His response is the title of a 1984 film in which Rupert Everett and Colin Firth first starred together.

* FeigningIntelligence : Done as part of a GambitRoulette in the 2007 St. Trinian's. It helps that they know some of the answers.

** Another group, The Banned of St. Trinian's, are featured in the 2009 film. As the DVD reveals, the actresses playing the band actually recorded the vocals for the two songs they're show performing. (A member of Girls Aloud, Sarah Harding, is a lead cast member in the second film, but does not perform with this group.)
* FakeBrit: It might be surprising to learn that Mischa Barton is not this actually having been in England

* FeigningIntelligence : Done as part of a XanatosRoulette in the 2007 St. Trinian's. It helps that they actually know some of the answers.

** Particularly in the reboot film (emphasized by the fact the vast majority of the cast were actually in their 20s).

* WritersCannotDoMath: One scene in the 2007 film had ''Stephen Fry'' award points to a team for concluding that the volume of a sphere is πr[[superscript:3]]. A fourteen-year-old could probably tell you that it's actually (4πr[[superscript:3]])/3.

The franchise would have to wait 27 more years before a new film came out, this time simply called ''St. Trinian's'' (''St. Trinian's School for (Bad) Girls'' in DVD release). In this one, the school is threatened with foreclosure by the bank , Headmistress Miss Fritton's brother (who wishes to build on the old ground) and the ultra-conservative Minister of Education. Faced with threats from all sides, the girls decide to pull off the biggest heist ever concocted by a bunch of teenagers. This one features Colin Firth as the Minister of Education, and thus avoids the CelebrityParadox by making jokes about ''Another Country'', ''PrideAndPrejudice'' and ''GirlWithAPearlEarring''. It's also notable for having Colin Firth and Rupert Everett perform "Love is in the Air" over the end credits. There was also a poorly-received (though not bad) sequel, ''St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold'', in 2009 (featuring former Series/DoctorWho star David Tennant as the villain). A third film is planned.

* SamusIsAGirl: "That Sea Dog, was a she dog." Pirate Fritton ([[spoiler:who is William Shakespeare]]) is a woman. Unlike other examples of this trope, this is blatantly obvious from the get-go.[[hottip:*:Unless you're familiar with [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Captain Jack Sparrow]] and his campy manners...

* WritersCannotDoMath: One scene in the 2007 film had ''Stephen Fry'' award points to a team for concluding that the volume of a sphere is πr^3. A fourteen-year-old could probably tell you that it's actually (4πr^3)/3.
** Clearly the writer extrapolated from πr^2 giving the area of a circle. Stephen Fry is much better versed in humanities than science, otherwise he might have spotted this one.

->-- '''Girls Aloud''', ''St. Trinian's'' (2007)

* FakeBand: Girls Aloud play one in the closing scenes of the 2007 movie - they also make cameos in the movie as students.

St Trinian's is a film series based on a series of cartoons by Ronald Searle (who also was responsible for the {{Molesworth}} books and ''Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done''). The films are set in a [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors disreputable girls' school]] where the only rule is that there are no rules. The girls themselves are teen and pre-teen horrors who are not above using their feminine wiles to get away with murder. The teachers? [[AdultsAreUseless They're no use]], instead teaching the girls how to get away with crime in foreign countries and mixing drinks. The headmistress, Miss Fritton, has no interest in maintaining any form of order. And there's a local spiv, Flash Harry, who makes money from whatever schemes the girls cook up (usually).

* HeroicSociopath: Pretty much the entire student body.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: in both the original film and the reboot. In the Belles of St Trinians, Millicent and Clarence Fritton were boy played by Alastair Sim. In the reboot film, Camilla and Carnaby Fritton were both played by Rupert Everett.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Camilla and Carnaby Fritton, both played by Rupert Everett.

* FakeBand: Girls Aloud 'play' one in the closing scenes of the 2007 movie.

* HeManWomanHater: In the 2009 film, an entire organization exists for hating women. Both Lord and [[IdenticalGrandson Sir]] Pomfrey's motivations are solely because of this as well.

* AccidentalAthlete: Annabelle Fritton is recruited for the hockey team after she smashes a bust with a mobile phone she belted with a hockey stick.

* AmazonBrigade: The field hockey team. In the older movies, it would be the fourth formers.

* BeautifulAllAlong: In the 2007 film, Annabelle's rapid-fire montage of makeovers twists and subverts this trope before ending in a standard expression that puts her in Posh Totty territory.

* CelebrityParadox: When looking at ''The Girl With A Pearl Earring'', one girl comments that Colin Firth was justified in wanting to shag her.

** Another group, The Banned of St. Trinian's, are featured in the 2009 film. As the DVD reveals, the actresses playing the band actually recorded the vocals for the two songs they're show performing. (A member of Girls Aloud, Sarah Harding, is a lead cast member in the second film, but does not perform with this group.)

* GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: In the 2007 film, the girls band together to effect this trope on new girl Annabelle Fritton as she showers, filming the resulting nekkid antics on hidden cameras and broadcasting it on {{YouTube}}.

* OneGenderSchool: Only females.

* BlackComedyRape: In the 2007 movie, Geoffrey Thwaites has a drink with his old lover, Miss Fritton, and wakes up naked in her bed the next morning.
** Note that the sex did not necessarily happen; Miss Fritton (played by Rupert Everett) euphemistically implies it, but the alcohol (its intensity boosted by an unspecified prescription medicine from her purse) knocked him out ''cold''. (And is not exactly known to necessarily be helpful in sexual situations.)

** In her mannerisms and mode of dress, Camilla Fritton parodies Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
** When Thwaites and Camilla meet, she says "Another time!" and he answers "Another country!" His response is the title of a 1984 film in which Rupert Everett and Colin Firth first starred together.

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Camilla and Carnaby Fritton, both played by Rupert Everett.

** The theme song for the 2007 and 2009 films (quoted at the top of this page). In the second film, the students actually chant the lyrics before going into battle.

* InspiredBy: St. Trinnean's School in Edinburgh, established by Miss C. Fraser Lee in 1922 and operated on an extremely relaxed theory of educational freedom. Ronald Searle created the first of the St. Trinian's cartoons after meeting the daughters of a couple he knew, who went to the real school. He tried tried to imagine what kind of school would produce the pair of pre-teen hellraisers, and created a British institution.

* MythologyGag: Several in the 2007 ReBoot.

* RapeAsComedy: In the 2007 movie, Geoffrey Thwaites has a drink with his old lover, Miss Fritton, and wakes up naked in her bed the next morning.

* OpenThDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: In the 2007 film, reporters are at the school and Colin Firth's character stands nude at the window of the headmistress' room.

* OnlySaneMan: The undercover policewoman Ruby, compared to the other teachers.

* SamusIsAGirl: "That Sea Dog, was a she dog." Pirate Fritton ([[spoiler:who is William Shakespeare]]) is a woman. Unlike other examples of this trope, this is blatantly obvious from the get-go.