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	Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 47, Iss. 552, (Jan 1, 1980): 97.</ref>		Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 47, Iss. 552, (Jan 1, 1980): 97.</ref>

	The film pokes fun at the [[Trades Union Congress\|British trade union movement]] which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the [[Winter of Discontent]].		The film pokes fun at the [[w:Trades Union Congress\|British trade union movement]] which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the [[w:Winter of Discontent\|Winter of Discontent]].

	The film was not a critical or commercial success.<ref>Obituary: Frank Launder		The film was not a critical or commercial success.<ref>Obituary: Frank Launder
	The Independent 24 Feb 1997: 16.</ref> It has yet to be released on [[DVD]] except in the [[United States\|US]].~~{{Citation needed\|date=June 2017}}~~		The Independent 24 Feb 1997: 16.</ref> It has yet to be released on [[DVD]] except in the [[United States\|US]].

	==Plot==		==Plot==

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{{Infobox film
| name = The Wildcats of St. Trinian's
| image = Wildcatsdvd.jpg
| caption = DVD cover
| director = [[Frank Launder]]
| producer = [[Michael Smedley-Aston|E.M. Smedley-Aston]]
| writer = Frank Launder [[Ronald Searle]]
| starring = [[Sheila Hancock]] [[Michael Hordern]] [[Joe Melia]] [[Thorley Walters]] [[Rodney Bewes]] [[Maureen Lipman]] [[Julia McKenzie]] [[Rosalind Knight]] [[Ambrosine Phillpotts]] [[Rose Hill (actress)|Rose Hill]] [[Deborah Norton]]
| music = [[James Kenelm Clarke]]
| cinematography = [[Ernest Steward]]
| editing = [[Antony Gibbs]]
|studio=Wildcat Film Productions
| distributor = Enterprise
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1980}}
| runtime = 91 min.
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
}}

'''''The Wildcats of St Trinian's''''' is the fifth British [[comedy film]] set in the fictional [[St Trinian's School]]. Directed by [[Frank Launder]], it was released in 1980.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050307132644/https://www.radiotimes.com/servlet_film/com.icl.beeb.rtfilms.client.simpleSearchServlet?frn=17681&searchTypeSelect=5 'Radio Times' film review]</ref><ref>WILDCATS OF ST. TRINIAN'S, The
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 47, Iss. 552, (Jan 1, 1980): 97.</ref>

The film pokes fun at the [[Trades Union Congress|British trade union movement]] which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the [[Winter of Discontent]].

The film was not a critical or commercial success.<ref>Obituary: Frank Launder
The Independent 24 Feb 1997: 16.</ref> It has yet to be released on [[DVD]] except in the [[United States|US]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2017}}

==Plot==
The girls of St. Trinian's hatch yet another fiendish plot—a trade union for British schoolgirls. Their friend and mentor, Flash Harry, suggests a plan which involves kidnapping girls from other rather more respectable colleges and substituting their own "agents". Thus begins a hilarious, often bloody, battle of wits as the girls meet resistance not only from Olga Vandermeer, their Headmistress, but from the Minister of Education, a private detective, and an oil sheikh. Despite all his desperate efforts to foil the conspiracy, the Minister has to face a growing realisation that the girls' demands will have to be met—for him this will mean a very great and very personal sacrifice.

==Cast==
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* [[Sheila Hancock]] as Olga Vandemeer
* [[Michael Hordern]] as Sir Charles Hackforth
* [[Joe Melia]] as [[Flash Harry (St Trinian's)|Flash Harry]]
* [[Thorley Walters]] as Hugo Culpepper Brown
* [[Rodney Bewes]] as Peregrine Butters
* [[Deborah Norton]] as Miss Brenner
* [[Maureen Lipman]] as Miss Katy Higgs
* [[Julia McKenzie]] as Miss Dolly Dormancott
* [[Ambrosine Phillpotts]] as Mrs Mowbray
* [[Rose Hill (actress)|Rose Hill]] as Miss Martingale
* [[Diana King (actress)|Diana King]] as Miss Mactavish
* [[Luan Peters]] as Miss Poppy Adams
* [[Barbara Hicks]] as Miss Coke
* [[Rosalind Knight]] as Miss Walsh
* [[Patsy Smart]] as Miss Warmold
* [[Bernadette O'Farrell]] as Miss Carfax
* [[Sandra Payne]] as Miss Taylor
* [[Hilda Braid]] as Miss Summers
* [[Ballard Berkeley]] as Humphrey Wills
* [[Frances Ruffelle]] as Angela Hall / Princess Roxanne
* Danielle Corgan as Eva Potts
* [[Lisa Vanderpump]] as Ursula
* [[Debbie Linden]] as Mavis
* Veronica Quilligan as Lizzie
* Miranda Hunnisett as Jennie
* [[Eileen Fletcher (actress)|Eileen Fletcher]] as Harriet
* Sarah-Jane Varley as Janet
* Theresa Ratcliff as Maggie
* [[Sandra Hall]] as Frieda
* [[Suzanna Hamilton]] as Matilda
{{div col end}}

==Production==
It had been fourteen years since the previous St Trinians film. "I didn't want to do another St Trinians unless it could top the previous one," said Launder during filming. "I think this one does."<ref name="guard">The terrible Trinians again
The Guardian 1 Oct 1979: 15.</ref> Sidney Gilliat was a production consultant.

==Reception==
Derek Malcolm of ''The Guardian'' called it "one of the worst films I've ever seen... Please don't do anything like it again. Ever."<ref>Being funny is no laughing matter
Malcolm, Derek. The Guardian 18 Dec 1980: 9.</ref>

Launder wanted to follow the film with an adaptation of the books by [[Norman Thelwell]] about a pony school. He almost made it in Norway in the late 1970s and in 1979 planned on making it in Britain the following year.<ref name="guard"/> However no movie resulted.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100125025712/http://www.sttriniansworld.net/2009/09/wildcats-of-st-trinians.html ST Trinians World-The Wildcats of St. Trinian's]
* {{British Comedy Guide|film|the_wildcats_of_st_trinians}}
* {{IMDb title|0081757}}

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