Googie Withers Movies

Night and the City

80/100

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.

It Always Rains on Sunday

73/100

An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.

Miranda

69/100

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.

On Approval

73/100

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.

Convict 99

71/100

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a ... See full summary »

The Silver Fleet

69/100

Jaap van Leyden (Sir Ralph Richardson) is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later, a ... See full summary »

Trouble Brewing

70/100

George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.

The Loves of Joanna Godden

72/100

On Romney Marsh at the turn of the century, a woman farmer has three suitors.

White Corridors

74/100

Hospital drama set at the Yeoman's Hospital, in the English Midlands, during the early 1950s.

They Came to a City

67/100

Adapted from a J.B. Priestley play with many of the original actors. The tale of various people who have come to live in an "ideal" city and their hopes and reasons for doing so.

Derby Day

65/100

Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and ... See full summary »

Strange Boarders

69/100

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to ... See full summary »

Once Upon a Dream

61/100

Chaos ensues when a woman wakes up believing that a romantic dream about her new servant is reality.

The Love Test

68/100

Mary Lee is the new head of a Chemistry Laboratory. Thompson and his work-mates are resentful of her appointment and try to make her fall in love with John in the hope that this will make ... See full summary »

Gaiety Girls

59/100

Back-Room Boy

65/100

A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship ... See full summary »

Port of Escape

56/100

Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time during their short stint on land. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer... See full summary »

Traveller's Joy

60/100

Nickel Queen

71/100

The Amazing Mr. Forrest

66/100

Devil on Horseback

49/100

The Girl in the Crowd

77/100

Bookseller David Gordon's new wife Marian has never met David's friend Bob but by telephone advises...

She Couldn't Say No

53/100

If I Were Boss

All at Sea

Lovestruck young man pretends to be a famous writer in order to impress a girl while on a cruise.