The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 was a crime so audacious it had sufficiently embedded itself in the public consciousness for there even to be a topical reference to SPECTRE's "consultation fee for the British train robbery" at the annual stocktaking scene that opened 'Thunderball'.

Getting into the spirit of the sixties the time was therefore ripe for these desperadoes to be pitted against an even more formidable foe in the form of the girls of St Trinian's; although in reality the original train robbers were a ruthless gang of career criminals that it's hard to believe were really much like an old softy like Frankie Howard.