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The Thieving Headmistress

Drama

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.

Date: 06/06/2006
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Pauline Quirke, Denis Lawson, Peter Cellier, Mary Roscoe, Richard Hope, David Holt, Hannah Walters

Pauline Quirke as Colleen McCabe in The Thieving Headmistress Pauline Quirke

Denis Lawson as Father Plunkett in The Thieving Headmistress Denis Lawson

Peter Cellier as Father O'Malley in The Thieving Headmistress Peter Cellier

Mary Roscoe as Maureen Stapley in The Thieving Headmistress Mary Roscoe

Richard Hope as Auditor Andy Pert in The Thieving Headmistress Richard Hope

David Holt as Mr. Huckerby in The Thieving Headmistress David Holt

Hannah Walters as Ms. Wallis in The Thieving Headmistress Hannah Walters