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The Thieving Headmistress (2006)

ALL 06/06/2006 (en) Drama 60 Min
  • Release
    06/06/2006
  • Production
    BBC, Firefly Film and Television Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    70%
  • Original title
    The Thieving Headmistress
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

  1. Norman Hull

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Pauline Quirke

    Colleen McCabe

  2. Denis Lawson

    Father Plunkett

  3. Peter Cellier

    Father O'Malley

  4. Mary Roscoe

    Maureen Stapley

  5. Richard Hope

    Auditor Andy Pert

  6. David Holt

    Mr. Huckerby

  7. Hannah Walters

    Ms. Wallis

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 4

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The Thieving Headmistress (2006) 60 Min

ALL 06/06/2006 (en)
Drama
  • Release 06/06/2006
  • Production
    BBC, Firefly Film and Television Productions
  • Original title The Thieving Headmistress
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is found out for practising it. An ex-nun,she leaves the convent because she becomes disillusioned with spiritual matters and goes into teaching, being appointed headmistress of the John Rigby School in London. Along with a small coterie of chosen staff members to act as her spies,she misappropriates half a million pounds from school funds which she spends on luxury goods and a trip on the Orient Express. Meanwhile the school suffers,having to use ancient text books and pupils as cleaners. She is tried,although admitted to hospital for depression on the trial day, and sentenced to five years in jail, later reduced to four. The film alternates dramatized scenes of Colleen's misbehaviour with interviews with those who knew her.

  1. Norman Hull

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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