The Thieving Headmistress
2006 | 60m | English
Popularity: 0.3 (history)
| Director: | Norman Hull |
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| Writer: | Norman Hull, Lucy Bowden |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 06, 2006 |
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| Director: | Norman Hull |
| Writer: | Norman Hull, Lucy Bowden |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | school, former nun |
| Production Companies | BBC, Firefly Film and Television Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: May 07, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Pauline Quirke | Colleen McCabe |
| Denis Lawson | Father Plunkett |
| Peter Cellier | Father O'Malley |
| Mary Roscoe | Maureen Stapley |
| Richard Hope | Auditor Andy Pert |
| David Holt | Mr. Huckerby |
| Hannah Walters | Ms. Wallis |
| Name | Job |
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| Norman Hull | Writer, Director |
| Lucy Bowden | Writer |
| Naomi Moore | Art Department Assistant |
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