Ronald Searle

Writer

March 3, 1920 (91 years)

† December 30, 2011

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Biography

Ronald Searle was born on March 3, 1920 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Scrooge (1970), The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) and The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980). He was married to Monica Ilse Koenig and Kaye Webb. He died on December 30, 2011 in Draguignan, Var, France.

Filmography

5.9

St Trinian's

When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to pull St. Trinian's out of the red.

5.6

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

After a wealthy philanthropist expresses an unusual interest in a ring found by her niece Annabelle, Miss Fritton explains that she's descended from a pirate who, in 1598, stole treasure from another: the philanthropist's ancestor. This discovery sends the racuous girls of St. Trinians on the hunt for buried treasure.

6.8

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

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.

6.4

The Belles of St Trinian's

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.

4.3

The Wildcats of St Trinian's

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

6.2

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school.

6.5

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's

The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best yet – they have burned down the school! As the girls stand trial, 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 Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.

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Molesworth

St Custard’s School for boys is in dire trouble! Someone has been stealing school funds to pay off shady gangsters. The school is now broke and may have to close. Young pupil Nigel Molesworth suspects one of the staff. He gets wind of a devious plan to nobble the school’s star football player, bet against St Custard’s to lose the National Schools’ Cup Final at Wembley, pocket the cash and flee the country. Determined to stop the culprit, rescue their star player and save the school, Molesworth embarks on a chaotic and hysterical race across 1950s London involving bank heists, wild animals, smog, the Kray twin gangsters, stunt-driving double-decker buses, Winston Churchill and the Queen!

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