Good-Time Girl

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.

Cast

Jean Kent

as Gwen Rawlings

Dennis Price

as Michael 'Red' Farrell

Flora Robson

as Miss Thorpe

Herbert Lom

as Max Vine

Griffith Jones

as Danny Martin

Bonar Colleano

as Micky Malone

Peter Glenville

as Jimmy Rosso

Diana Dors

as Lyla Lawrence

Zena Marshall

as Annie Farrell

George Carney

as Mr. Rawlings

Reviews

John Chard

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 Glenvill...

CinemaSerf

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 polic...

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