When she sees the error of her ways and vows to reform, even Flora Robson looks unconvinced. Good Time Girl is a fascinating social document that is also quite entertaining. It doesn't get near to being a classic, because the narration and tone distance us from Gwen. Aging teacher looks back at his life at a public school. Robert Donat 's Oscar-winning performance is the heart of this brilliant weepy.
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R.C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz, Sidney Franklin. Hay is the incompetent schoolteacher William Potts who bears an uncanny resemblance to a recently captured German spy. Luckily Potts teaches German, and British Intelligence persuades him to parachute into Germany in the spy's place to teach at a training school for spies, and gather information about the secret laboratory next door. Best scene has to be the lesson when Hay teaches his pupils to stick two fingers up at a portrait of Hitler. It's never less than watchable, and yet it's not up to the standard of the best of Hay.