This sequel to The Belles of St Trinian’s (1954) finds headmistress, Miss Fritton (Alastair Sim) doing a short stretch under lock and key in one of Her Majesty’s Prisons and the St Trinian’s girls under the protection of the Army.
Flash Harry (George Cole), meanwhile, is in Rome running the “St Trinian’s Marriage Bureau” and trying to set a wealthy Italian prince up with one of the sixth form girls from the school.
The Prince tells Harry to bring all the sixth formers to Rome so the girls hatch a plan to ‘win’ (through fair means or foul) a UNESCO school’s competition with a trip to Europe as its prize.
In order to do so, the girls raid the Ministry of Education at midnight to execute an elaborate break-in Rififi-style, to substitute winning entries to the competition.
Meanwhile, diamond robber Joe Mangan (Lionel Jeffries) tries to take shelter from the police in the school and ends up “chaperoning” the girls on their trip, disguised as their new headmistress, Dame Maud Hackshaw (Judith Furse).
Let loose in Europe, it’s not long before St Trinian’s have succeeded in endangering European relations, playing jazz in the Mozarteum at Salzburg and running amok in the Colosseum at Rome.
Undercover policewoman Ruby Gates (Joyce Grenfell) follows them and has a brief romantic encounter with Captain Romney Carlton-Ricketts (Terry-Thomas), the shady owner of the dilapidated coaches used on the school trip.
Romney Carlton-Ricketts
Terry-Thomas Flash Harry
George Cole Sergeant Ruby Gates
Joyce Grenfell Miss Amelia Fritton
Alastair Sim Joe Mangan
Lionel Jeffries Myrna Mangan
Lisa Gastoni Culpepper-Brown
Eric Barker Manton Bassett
Richard Wattis Superintendent Sam Kemp-Bird
Lloyd Lamble Dame Maud Hackshaw
Judith Furse Bridget Strong
Dilys Laye Cynthia Meadows
José Read Annabel
Rosalind Knight Mavis
Patricia Lawrence Marjorie
Marigold Russell Jane Osborne
Vikki Hammond Virginia
Sabrina (Norma Sykes) Police Sergeant
Terry Scott Italian Police Inspector
Ferdy Mayne Charlie Bull
Kenneth Griffith Prestwick
Peter Jones Miss Brenner
Lisa Lee Prince Bruno
Guido Lorraine Prince Bruno’s mother
Alma Taylor Henry Roberts
Charles Lloyd Pack Daphne
Nicola Braithwaite Mercia
Jeanette Bradbury Tilly
Amanda Coxell Bissy
Moya Francis Fluffy
Marianne Brauns
Director
Frank Launder
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Flash Harry (George Cole), meanwhile, is in Rome running the “St Trinian’s Marriage Bureau” and trying to set a wealthy Italian prince up with one of the sixth form girls from the school.
Romney Carlton-Ricketts
Mavis
Miss Brenner
