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.
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The Thieving Headmistress Cast
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Character |
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Denis Lawson
He was 58, now 77 years old
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as Father Plunkett |
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Pauline Quirke
She was 46, now 65 years old
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as Colleen McCabe |
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Mary Roscoe
She was 46, now 65 years old
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as Maureen Stapley |
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Richard Hope
He was 27, now 46 years old
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as Auditor Andy Pert |
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David Holt
He was 78, 76 years old when he died
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as Mr. Huckerby |
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Peter Cellier
He was 78, now 96 years old
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as Father O'Malley |
The Thieving Headmistress Crew
