Good-Time Girl (1948)
And You Can Have Her!
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.
- Date of release
- 1948-04-28
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (16)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- David MacDonald
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
Good-Time Girl is a 1948 British film noir-crime drama film directed by David MacDonald and starring Jean Kent, Dennis Price and Herbert Lom. A homeless girl is asked to explain her bad behaviour in the juvenile court, and says she's run away from home because she's unhappy there. They explain in detail what happened to the last girl who thought she could cope on her own, and this becomes the main plot.
Production
The film was originally known as Bad Girl. It was based on Arthur La Bern's 1947 novel Night Darkens the Street. It was shot at Islington Studios and on location around London. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Carter and George Provis.
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