No one does anarchy quite like the Poms and there’s a lot of fun to be had in this tale of a girls boarding school where the headmistress basically lets the students run riot. So there are flour fights, cigarettes, screaming, gambling, etc – not to mention a headmistress in drag. It’s a lot of fun. The plot involves the school being saved from bankruptcy by having a foreign ruler send their child there – and then the school having to gamble everything on a race horse to save the school. The baddies are a school inspector who wants to shut the place down. Occasionally the pace flags, and this really is a one note samba (girls run wild) but the spirits are high and the cast is superb.
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