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11 May 1950 (USA) moreTagline:
And You Can Have Her!Plot:
A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jean Kent | ... | Gwen Rawlings | |
| Dennis Price | ... | Michael 'Red' Farrell | |
| Herbert Lom | ... | Max Vine | |
| Bonar Colleano | ... | Micky Malone | |
| Peter Glenville | ... | Jimmy Rosso | |
| Flora Robson | ... | Chairman of the Juvenile Court | |
| George Carney | ... | Mr. Rawlings | |
| Beatrice Varley | ... | Mrs. Rawlings | |
| Hugh McDermott | ... | Al Schwartz | |
| Griffith Jones | ... | Danny Martin | |
| Amy Veness | ... | Mrs. Chalk | |
| Elwyn Brook-Jones | ... | Mr. Pottinger | |
| Orlando Martins | ... | Kolly | |
| Renee Gadd | ... | Mrs. Parkins | |
| Jill Balcon | ... | Roberta |
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The 27-year-old Jean Kent plays 16-year-old Gwen in this excellent and harrowing British film that looks at the downfall of a good-time girl.
Told as a cautionary tell by Flora Robson (a court officer) to Diana Dors (a possible delinquent), the story of Gwen combines parts of all those Hollywood movies starring Lana Turner or Susan Hayward in which the good girl goes bad---and PAYS for it.
Gwen is a well-meaning girl who comes from a violent home and likes nice things. After a final beating from her father on being fired from a job in a pawn shop, she runs away and gets an apartment in London. There she meets a man who gets her a job in a nightclub. From then on she's on a descent into a world of booze and sleazy men. She never really does anything wrong but she crosses the wrong guy and he gets even by framing her in a jewel heist. She's sent to a reform school, learns to be really tough, and escapes to live an even wilder life of men and booze. The final sequence of events is mesmerizingly horrible as Gwen gets framed one last time.
Jean Kent is terrific and totally believable as the willful teenager and party girl. She's as good as any tough girl in any Hollywood film. Supporting cast offers a few great roles here: Griffith Jones, usually a nice guy, plays a sadistic thug; Jill Balcon (mother of Daniel Day-Lewis) is great as the vicious Roberta; Herbert Lom is subdued as Maxie the nightclub owner; Beatrice Varley is good as the hapless mother; Dennis Price is memorable as Red; and Flora Robson scores again as the court official.
Just a terrific little film.....