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The Thieving Headmistress

06/06/2006

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1hr 0min

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Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Pauline Quirke
  • Denis Lawson
  • Peter Cellier
  • Mary Roscoe
  • Richard Hope

    Director

  • Norman Hull

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC
  • Firefly Film and Television Productions

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    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

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