April 29th, 2009, 12:52 PM | #21 |
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Found this a little while back, publicity shot for "Pure Hell" film, so credit to original poster.
I have also posted a pic of Sabrina from the same film on her own thread here's the link. http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com...42&postcount=9 Enjoy AceXX |
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April 29th, 2009, 01:14 PM | #22 |
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Sabrina seemed to make a career from flaunting
her boobs... even way back in the 1950s ... (how did she ever get on the holier than thou BBC ? ) great casting for St Trinians... but blink and you ve missed her ( a bit like Girls Aloud in the 2007 version ) I think I read Ronald Searle's biog and from what I remember he seemed to be looking down on the Brits and sneering at their page 3 culture. In the end he upped sticks and went to live in France a far more cultured nation. |
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April 29th, 2009, 04:24 PM | #23 |
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Too right the b/w st.Trinians were the best I think it's what got me into uniforms/ black ff nylons ?
The early films were a bit of a pastiche of Britain with the class references . Alister Sim &George Cole were outstanding as Miss Fritton/Flash Harry.The sixties colour one with Frankie Howard was the begining of the end infact he saved it from a totally abysmal script.The last film linked on this thread well the least said the better. |
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I've always liked Alister Sim. He had a wonderful droll and sinister presence, and was apparently a really nice person which is nice. He even turned down a knighthood because he did not want anyone to call him sir!! Just for the record I will snap the Queen's hand off if offered a knighthood then again I'm not as nice as Sim.
The thing that stands out about Sim's Miss Fritton is the femininity of the characterisation. Sim does not play her as a pantomime dame, or as camp, but as a genteel, slightly criminal, lady. Beautiful work. It reminds me of the actress who played a male photographer, you don't see the character as anything else as a man; Fritton is a woman who is simply played by a man...which is unusual. |
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April 30th, 2009, 03:33 PM | #25 |
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Alistair Sim was a genius in the same way that the late Sir Alec Guinness was in creating believable characters-witness this in the marvellous dark comedy "Kind Hearts and Coronets" where he plays seven members of his family. Sim is brilliant also in "Green For Danger." Joyce Grenfell like another brilliant comic actress since died Irene Handl played a lot of characters where you could believe it was someone else and not her-nearest to that these days possibly Maureen Lipman who did some of Joyce's monologues on stage. I personally didn't like the St Trinians films, because I don't like that sort of knockabout comedy however the glimpses of Sim as Miss Fritton were funny. I also think it was wrong to remake it, even Wildcats of St Trinians was dire although lets face it the site of Debbie Linden(Mavis) in black stockings and suspenders and Luan Peters-skinny dipping were the only highlights.
I don't remember the scene but I have since seen a speeded up version of Margaret Nolan(Vicky Ireland) doing a striptease which was of its time-I wonder who those films were really made for? Certainly not family viewing I would say.
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I much preferred Julie Alexander's two little strips in "Pure Hell". One was as a harem girl which turned me on to belly dancers big time. The other was peeling out of period costume while reading Hamlet - how bizarre is that? The film always cut away when getting to the good bits though. Very frustrating - I've got the clips somewhere...
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i remember watching an old Norman Wsidom film in b/w the nurses all wore ff nylons, as norman hid on the floor? there was a great close up , high heels and fully fashioned nylons, bliss!!!!
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The films were very much "of their time". I love "The Belles of St Trinians'" - the first one - a wonderful send-up of post war education system.
The latest one - a brave idea I thought - really showed how things have changed. There was always two types of St Trinians girls - the younger pre-pubescent ones - who were scruffy, scheming and extremely violent and the "sixth-formers" all sexy stockings and glamour. Nowadays knives (and guns) in schools are a real issue and you're made to feel like a paedo for finding the school uniform look attractive (however mature the person in it). Not wishing to address those taboo's, the film didn't really have anything left to skit. (It's a shame we NEED films to send up this mad country. "Carry on Banking", "Carry on Spinning" etc etc) Don't know if this has been mentioned in the thread but St Trinians was based on a real school (spelt St Trineans). What a delicious thought! It was in Edinbrugh between the wars and adopted "unorthodox" methods. The philosophy was that every child should be left to find something they were good at and encouraged to pursue that. A breath of fresh air from constricting "one size fits all" comprehensives and National curriculum etc. |
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