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The Thieving Headmistress (2006)
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.
Updated Jan 19 2017
Cast
Peter Cellier
Father O'Malley
Denis Lawson
Father Plunkett
Mary Roscoe
Maureen Stapley
Pauline Quirke
Colleen McCabe
David Holt
Mr. Huckerby
Hannah Walters
Ms. Wallis
Crew
Norman Hull
Director
Norman Hull
Writer
