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Good-Time Girl

Name: Good-Time Girl
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1948-04-28
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 6.375

★ 6,4 /10 (16 Votes)

1948 EN 81 min

Overview

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.

Release date

28/04/1948

Votes

Popularity

0.8

And You Can Have Her!

Genres

Drama Crime

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

81 min

Jean Kent

Gwen Rawlings

Dennis Price

Michael 'Red' Farrell

Flora Robson

Miss Thorpe

Herbert Lom

Max Vine

Griffith Jones

Danny Martin

Bonar Colleano

Micky Malone

Peter Glenville

Jimmy Rosso

Diana Dors

Lyla Lawrence

Zena Marshall

Annie Farrell

George Carney

Mr. Rawlings

Beatrice Varley

Mrs. Rawlings

Hugh McDermott

Al Schwartz

Amy Veness

Mrs. Chalk

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Elwyn Brook-Jones

Mr. Pottinger

Orlando Martins

Kolly

Renee Gadd

Mrs. Parsons

Jill Balcon

Roberta

Joan Young

Mrs. Bond

Margaret Barton

Agnes

Jack Raine

Detective Inspector Girton

Nora Swinburne

Miss Mills

George Merritt

Police Sergeant

Michael Hordern

Seddon

Garry Marsh

Mr. Hawkins

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Harry Ross

Fruity Lee

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Dorothy Vernon

Mrs. Chudd

Vera Frances

Edie Rawlings

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June Byford

Joan Rawlings

John Blythe

Art Moody

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Edward Lexy

Mr. Morgan

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Phyl French

Sonia

Danny Green

Smiling Billy

Noel Howlett

Clerk

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Mollie Palmer

Reform School Girl

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Ilena Sylva

Ida

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Betty Nelson

Connie

Rosalind Atkinson

Doctor

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Iris Vandeleur

Lodger

Jane Hylton

Doris

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Lionel Grose

Silver Slipper Doorman

Arthur Hambling

Policeman at Park Gates

Tommy Duggan

MP (uncredited)

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Dennis Harkin

A Pug (uncredited)

Wally Patch

Bookie (uncredited)

Phyllis Stanley

Ida (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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Night Darkens the Street. Good-Time Girl is directed by David MacDonald and collectively adapted to screenplay by Muriel Box, Sydney Box and Ted Willis from the novel Night Darkens the Street written by Arthur La Bern. It stars Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Collleano, Peter Glenville, Flora Robson and Jill Balcon. Music is by Lambert Williamson and Clifton Parker, and cinematography is by Stephen Dade. This is the story of Gwen Rawlings (Kent), a 16 year old British girl who ran away from home and met trouble around every corner she turned... The under represented genr…

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Jean Kent ("Gwen") is at the top of her game in this fast moving drama. After what can only be described as a violent childhood, a period in borstal and getting sacked from her job in a jewellery shop, she has a little too much to drink one evening, drives home and accidentally collides with a policeman! Desperate to avoid the law, she hooks up with deserting American soldier - "Mallone" (Bonar Colleano) and shortly afterwards they are becoming the petty-thievery bane of the lives of just about everyone. It's told by way of a sort of optimistically redemptive series of flashbacks as another yo…

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