"of the moor from Longmoor. This was previously a Boys own Preparatory school based at Burghclere near Newbury, but had coincidentally merged with a Girls Preparatory School at the location at Liss 9 months prior to the making of the film The film was among the 15 most popular movies at the British box office in 1966. The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery is a British film comedy set in the fictional St Trinian's School, released in 1966, three years after the Great Train Robbery had taken place. It also parodies the technocratic ideas"
"Platinum High School Platinum High School is a 1960 film drama directed by Charles Haas and starring Mickey Rooney. The film was the last made in a six-film deal between producer Albert Zugsmith and MGM. Sailing to a coastal California island, Steven Conway sets out to find out what caused the mysterious death of his son. Denied food and lodging at his first two stops, Conway goes to a remote and elite military school on Sabre Island. The school is run by Major Redfern Kelly, whose secretary Jennifer Evans wonders why it took Conway four months to come inquire about"
"by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. They had earlier produced ""The Happiest Days of Your Life"" (1950), a stylistically similar school comedy, starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Richard Wattis, Guy Middleton, and Bernadette O'Farrell, all of whom later appeared in the St Trinian's series, often playing similar characters. Barchester and Barset were used as names for the fictional towns near which St Trinian's School was supposedly located in the original films. In ""Blue Murder at St Trinian's"", a signpost was marked as 2 miles to Barset, 8 miles to Wantage, indicating a location in Oxfordshire. St Trinian's is"
"Crime School Crime School is a 1938 Warner Bros. film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart. A junkman (Frank Otto) does business with the Dead End Kids: Frankie (Billy Halop), Squirt (Bobby Jordan), Spike (Leo Gorcey), Goofy (Huntz Hall), Fats (Bernard Punsly), and Bugs (Gabriel Dell). When the boys ask for a $20 payoff, ""Junkie"" says ""Five is all you'll get. Now take it and get out of here."" In a rage, Spike strikes the man in the back of the head with a hard object, and the junkman falls to the floor"
"Fine Arts Center, and the Rossin Campus Center. During Burnett's tenure, the college acquired and renovated the W & J Alumni House, restored and renovated Thompson Memorial and McMillan Halls, added several residence facilities, and opened the Student Resource Center. The college expanded its academic programs to include the Entrepreneurial Studies Program, the Freshman Forum, and cooperative international education programs with institutions in England, Colombia and Russia, and student enrollment grew from 830 in 1970 to 1,100 in 1998. During the early 1990s, the college was the setting for two feature films. George A. Romero's film, ""The Dark Half"", was"
"the home of the infamous Highway Safety Foundation, the organization that created the controversial driver's education scare films that featured gruesome film photography taken at fatal automobile accidents in the Mansfield area. The films include ""Signal 30"" (1959), ""Mechanized Death"" (1961), ""Wheels of Tragedy"" (1963), and ""Highways of Agony"" (1969). In addition, the Highway Safety Foundation produced other controversial education films including ""The Child Molester"" and ""Camera Surveillance"" (both 1964). In 1962, The Highway Safety Foundation loaned camera equipment to the Mansfield Police Department to film the escapades of some of the city's homosexual men, who met for sexual relations"
"Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stop at a service station on Live Oak Street in ""Hollywood or Bust"" (1956). Hills near California Lutheran University were used in the filming of ""Welcome to Hard Times"" (1967). ""Spartacus"" (1960) was also filmed by CLU. Movies are still being made at Ventura Farms (previously Deerwood Stock Farm), Greenfield Ranch, and the JMJ Ranch. A number of movie productions took place in Wildwood Regional Park between the 1930s and 1960s. Examples include ""Wuthering Heights"" (1939), ""Dodge City"" (1939), ""The Rifleman"" (1958–63), ""Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier"" (1955), ""The Grapes of Wrath"" (1940),"
"the dance by her ex-boyfriend Edwin Sowerby in front of several witnesses. Sowerby, who had taken the break-up of their relationship hard, was given the death penalty and was hanged at Armley Prison in Leeds on 30 December 1920. Local legend depicts that the ghost of Jane Darwell still haunts the infants school, and is known as ""The Blue Lady"".. In 1955, Crofton Secondary School opened in Crofton Old Hall. Crofton Slack Lane Junior School and Crofton High School were both constructed in the 1960s. A new Junior and Infant school was opened in Shay Lane in 1972. In the"
"Rian Johnson, is a unique homage bordering on parody which brings the terse, slang-filled dialog of Raymond Chandler to a modern-day California high school where a teenage sleuth investigates a murder connected to a drug ring. Noteworthy police detective dramas of the period include The French film ""The Sleeping Car Murders"" (1965), ""In the Heat of the Night"" (winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture in 1967), ""Bullitt"", ""Madigan"" (both 1968), ""Klute"" (1971), ""Electra Glide in Blue"" (1973), and two non-mysteries: ""Dirty Harry"", and ""The French Connection"" (both 1971). ""The Parallax View"" (1974) is the first murder mystery structured"
"1950s. Comedy was also given new life in the irreverent ""Animal House"", set on a college campus during the 1960s. ""Up in Smoke"", starring Cheech & Chong, was another irreverent comedy about marijuana use became popular among teenagers. The new television comedy program, ""Saturday Night Live"", launched the careers of several of its comedians, such as Chevy Chase, who co-starred in the 1978 hit ""Foul Play"" with Goldie Hawn. The decade closed with two films chronicling the Vietnam War, Michael Cimino's ""The Deer Hunter"" and Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"". Both films focused on the horrors of war and the"
"film and television projects with similar themes of criss-cross murder, often treated comically. They include: Strangers on a Train (film) Strangers on a Train is a 1951 American psychological thriller film noir produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel ""Strangers on a Train"" by Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951. The film stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Robert Walker, and features Leo G. Carroll, the director's daughter Pat Hitchcock, and Laura Elliott. It is number 32 on AFI's ""100 Years... 100"
"documentaries, and television programmes. Former pupils are known as Old Blues. Some better known Old Blues include: Reading Blue Coat School Reading Blue Coat School is an Independent, day school for boys with a co-educational Sixth Form in Holme Park in the village of Sonning, in the English county of Berkshire, to the east of the town of Reading. It is situated beside the River Thames, and was established in 1646 by Richard Aldworth, who named it ""Aldworth's Hospital"". The school was established in 1646 at the height of the English Civil War, when a wealthy London merchant, Richard Aldworth"
"destroyed in the Civil War, as a row of four almshouses, called Bartlemas House. Bartlemas Chapel and two farm cottages are the other extant buildings. The buildings of Oriel College were used as a location for Hugh Grant's first film, ""Privileged"" (1982), as well as ""Oxford Blues"" (1984), ""True Blue"" (1991) and ""The Dinosaur Hunter"" (2000). The television crime series ""Inspector Morse"" used the College in the episodes ""Ghost in the Machine"", under the name of 'Courtenay College', ""The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn"", ""The Infernal Serpent"", ""Deadly Slumber"", ""Twilight of the Gods"" and ""Death is now My Neighbour"", and"
"The Blue Peter (1955 film) The Blue Peter is a 1955 British film (copyright 1954). The film was retitled Navy Heroes and released in the United States in December 1957. The film is about youth seamanship at the original Outward Bound in Aberdovey, Wales, a program similar to Sea Scouting or Sea Cadets. Shellshocked following his experiences as a POW, naval war hero Mike Merriworth (Kieron Moore) enrols as a physical instructor at an Outward Bound sea school in Wales, and discovers new purpose shaping the lives of the boys in his charge. ""TV Guide"" wrote, ""Several humorous scenes of"
"people caught in the act of visiting prostitutes. When the Street Offences Act 1959 drove prostitution off the streets, many clubs such as the Blue Lagoon at No. 50 Carnaby Street became fronts for it. Gangs controlled the clubs and the prostitutes, and the police were bribed. In 1960 London's first sex cinema, the Compton Cinema Club (a members-only club to get around the law), opened at 56 Old Compton Street. It was owned by Michael Klinger and Tony Tenser who later produced two early Roman Polanski films, including ""Repulsion"" (1965). As post-war austerity relaxed into the ""swinging '60s"", clip"
"underworld have been portrayed in a small number of films. Examples include ""Where's Jack?"" (17th century), ""The First Great Train Robbery"" (Victorian era), ""Chicago Joe and the Showgirl"" (World War II) and ""The Krays"" (the 1960s), while ""10 Rillington Place"" (1971) recreated 1940s London, filming in the actual street where John Christie carried out his infamous murders. Other films have evoked London's underworld in the modern era, including ""Robbery"" (1967), ""Performance"" (1970), ""Villain"" (1971), ""Brannigan"" (1975), ""The Long Good Friday"" (1980), ""Mona Lisa"" (1986), ""Face"" (1997), ""Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"" (1998), """" (1999), ""Snatch"" (2000), ""Sexy Beast"" (2000)"
"frequently feature as backdrops for many film and TV shows. Most notable is a bus scene in the ""Cannon and Ball"" film, and in the 1957 film ""Lucky Jim"". Several historic buildings in Bushey, notably the old Royal Masonic School for Boys, later the International University, in the Avenue, have been used in films over a long period of time, including, ""Nuns on the Run"", ""Out of Bounds"", ""Children of Men"" and ""Harry Potter"". and also the comedy series ""Little Britain"". It has also been the set for several television series, including ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" and ""Little Britain"". This"
"a dramatization of a ""similar"" disastrous school fire, explaining all the safety measures that should have been in place and functional. The filmmakers stated that the school in the film is not supposed to be OLA, but most of the details are identical, down to the iconic image of the dead student being carried out by the fireman. Additionally, the school depicted in the film is not a Catholic school like OLA, but a ""regular"" public elementary school with typical schoolteachers and students. This film was produced in 1959 during fire tests being made at Robert Louis Stevenson Junior High"
"arrested. The boys are subsequently paroled into the care of their parents. Warner Archives released the film on made to order DVD in the United States on August 4, 2009. Crime School Crime School is a 1938 Warner Bros. film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart. A junkman (Frank Otto) does business with the Dead End Kids: Frankie (Billy Halop), Squirt (Bobby Jordan), Spike (Leo Gorcey), Goofy (Huntz Hall), Fats (Bernard Punsly), and Bugs (Gabriel Dell). When the boys ask for a $20 payoff, ""Junkie"" says ""Five is all you'll get. Now take"
"years in first grade, and two years in second grade, and to compensate the relatives of the victims with a sum of 3 billion of lire. All his assets were seized. This was the largest disaster to have occurred after World War II in Turin. The youngest victim was 7 years old, the oldest was 55 years old. There were nine orphans. The accident prompted a wave of reforms in the laws about public buildings, making fireproof materials and firefighting equipment mandatory for every public space. Cinema Statuto fire Cinema Statuto was a movie theater located in Turin, Italy, when"
"the picture were filmed at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was used as the Southern Institute stadium in the early portion of the film and later as the Naval Academy stadium. The film was very popular: according to MGM records it made $884,000 in the US and Canada and $284,000 in other countries, recording a profit of $297,000. Navy Blue and Gold (film) Navy Blue and Gold is a 1937 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dramatic film starring Robert Young, James Stewart and Lionel Barrymore. The plot revolves around the experiences of three young men attending the"
"on South Street"" is a pickpocket who keeps his beer in the East River instead of a refrigerator. ""Shock Corridor"" concerns the patients of a mental hospital. ""Underworld U.S.A."" (1961) focuses on an orphaned victim of mobsters. The leading ladies of ""Pickup on South Street"", ""China Gate"", and ""The Naked Kiss"" are prostitutes. These characters sometimes find retribution for the injustices against them. ""White Dog"" and ""The Crimson Kimono"" (1959) have definite anti-racist elements. ""The Steel Helmet"", set during the Korean War, contains dialogue about the internment of Japanese-Americans and the segregation of the American military in World War II,"
"in an individual secure vault at the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia in order to preserve the film for future generations. Wagon Master Wagon Master is a 1950 Western film about a Mormon pioneer wagon train to the San Juan River in Utah. The film was conceived, produced, and directed by John Ford, who is often listed among the greatest film directors. The film stars Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, and Ward Bond. ""Wagon Master"" inspired the US television series ""Wagon Train"" (1957–1965), which starred Ward Bond until his death in 1960. The film was a personal favorite"
"Navy Blue and Gold (film) Navy Blue and Gold is a 1937 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer dramatic film starring Robert Young, James Stewart and Lionel Barrymore. The plot revolves around the experiences of three young men attending the United States Naval Academy. After each is accepted for admission to the United States Naval Academy, three midshipmen, Dick Gates, Roger Ash and ""Truck"" Cross, become roommates. Dick is the scion of a wealthy family, Roger a former star football player for another university, and Truck a sailor appointed from the fleet. With a common love of football, all three go out for the"
"is forced off the road and dies in the accident. Matt gets Crickett to promise secrecy and let others find the body. Wanda rebuffs kisses and advances from Matt and as she runs from his car, she sees the recent car damage. Friends find Kelly at the bridge accident scene. Everyone suspects Matt and he finds himself alone at his birthday party that night. High School Caesar High School Caesar is a 1960 American film directed by O'Dale Ireland. Matt Stevens (John Ashley) as the ""guy with the power"" at his high school but everyone despises him. He isn't, after"
"School for Danger School for Danger (also known as Now It Can Be Told) is a 1947 British docudrama film directed by Teddy Baird depicting the training and deployment of agents of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. The film stars real-life SOE agents Captain Harry Rée and Jacqueline Nearne. In 1943, ""Captain Brown"" and ""Miss Williams"" are recruited and trained to be secret agents (Miss Williams as Brown's wireless operator). They are then sent to German-occupied France, under the operational names ""Felix"" and ""Cat"", where they organise resistance, carrying out sabotage and helping airmen get back"
"film in the Golden Age of Porn, was, at the time, controversial for its frank approach to a sexual encounter. ""Blue Movie"" was publicly screened in New York City in 2005, for the first time in more than 30 years. After his June 3, 1968, shooting, a reclusive Warhol relinquished his personal involvement in filmmaking. His acolyte and assistant director, Paul Morrissey, took over the film-making chores for the Factory collective, steering Warhol-branded cinema towards more mainstream, narrative-based, B-movie exploitation fare with ""Flesh"", ""Trash"", and ""Heat"". All of these films, including the later ""Andy Warhol's Dracula"" and ""Andy Warhol's Frankenstein"","
"1950 films include: the psychological thriller directed by Mel Ferrer, ""The Secret Fury"", starring Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan; the Bette Davis vehicle, ""Payment on Demand"" (1951), which also stars Barry Sullivan; the 1951 color musical, ""Two Tickets to Broadway"", starring Tony Martin and Janet Leigh; the musical comedy ""Double Dynamite"", starring Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra; the 1953 romantic comedy ""Susan Slept Here"", starring Debbie Reynolds and Dick Powell, in his last screen appearance; the Civil War Western, ""Great Day in the Morning"", starring Robert Stack and Virginia Mayo; the 1956 musical comedy, ""Bundle of Joy"", starring"
"the film with English subtitles. Death Academy Death Academy (also known as School Night Massacre) is a 2005 horror film written and directed by Daniel Lehmussaari. While researching a massacre that occurred at their high school ten years ago, a group of four students manage to contact the recently released killer, who claims that he was framed by the school's current principal. Believing the man's story, the quartet bring him along when they break into the school one night to look for evidence of the principal's guilt. As the students search the building, they are picked off one by one"
"to the UK. School for Danger School for Danger (also known as Now It Can Be Told) is a 1947 British docudrama film directed by Teddy Baird depicting the training and deployment of agents of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. The film stars real-life SOE agents Captain Harry Rée and Jacqueline Nearne. In 1943, ""Captain Brown"" and ""Miss Williams"" are recruited and trained to be secret agents (Miss Williams as Brown's wireless operator). They are then sent to German-occupied France, under the operational names ""Felix"" and ""Cat"", where they organise resistance, carrying out sabotage and helping"
"on their way to and from school; they originally inspired his cartoons and characters. The Perse School for Girls' Archive area holds several original St Trinian's books, given to the school by Ronald Searle. He also based the school partly on the former Cambridgeshire High School for Girls (now Long Road Sixth Form College). In the 1950s, a series of ""St Trinian""s comedy films was made, featuring well-known British actors, including Alastair Sim (in drag as the headmistress, and also playing her brother); George Cole as spiv ""Flash Harry"", Joyce Grenfell as Sgt Ruby Gates, a beleaguered policewoman; and Richard"
"for that film. ""Electra Glide in Blue"" (1973) is another rare example of a murder-mystery plot used as a vehicle for a story concerning greater issues. In this case, disillusionment and the death of dreams and idealism in a world full of immorality. Since the mid-1970s, only a handful of films with private detectives have been produced. These include ""I, the Jury"", ""Angel Heart"", ""Hollywood Harry"", ""The Two Jakes"", ""Devil in a Blue Dress"", ""Pure Luck"", ""Under Suspicion"", ""Twilight"" with Paul Newman, and Ben Affleck's ""Gone Baby Gone"". Raymond Chandler's original Philip Marlowe short stories from the '30s (which he"
"for many films including ""The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery"" and ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". In light of the reducing role of the British military in the 1960s, it was decided by the Ministry of Defence to close the railway. Local locomotive preservation groups, on hearing of its impending closure, became interested in acquiring the complete rail system to establish a unique transport museum. Bids were placed to purchase the LMR along with the airstrip at Gypsy Hollow. However the MOD rejected the proposal, although it was backed by the Association of Railway Preservation Societies and The Transport Trust. Instead"