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Googie Withers - what members say

Hotel Du Lac review by from from deep in the luscious green valleys of stunning Mid-Wales.

Intriguing Human Observation 27 October 2005
...ter of the controlling and somewhat hysterical Mrs. Pusey, played splendidly by Googie Withers. Look for Brookner's keen observations of the power relationships between men ... Read customer review

It Always Rains on a Sunday review by A customer from Cardiff, Wales

Drama and social commentary 21 November 2005
...rains on a Sunday' observes George Sandigate (Edward Chapman) to his wife Rose (Googie Withers) at the beginning of this film, as the rain pours down outside the window of th... Read customer review

Northanger Abbey review by from Glasgow, Scotland

Bad advert for Jane Austen 18 February 2007
...oft focus and cheap unconvincing sets. The actors LOOKED unconvincing too ( and Googie Withers is normally excellent but not here). It was like a low budget TV movie and i... Read customer review

Googie Withers - filmography

Hotel Du Lac on DVD (1986)
Starring: Anna Massey, Denholm Elliott, Patricia Hodge
Director: Giles Foster
Certificate:
BBC TV adaptation of the award-winning novel by Anita Brookner, which vividly brings to life the characters and atmosphere of the elegant Hotel Du Lac. It is a production of wit, charm, and beautifully observed detail filmed amid the mountains and lakes of Switzerland.

63% from 564 members

Northanger Abbey on DVD (1986)
Starring: Peter Firth, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy
Director: Giles Foster
Certificate:
An Eighteenth Century drama adapted from the novel by Jane Austen. Catherine Morland arrives at Northanger upon the invitation of Henry Tilney and discovers that the place is shrouded in mystery and intrigue.

45% from 1,517 member

Within These Walls - Series 2 (1975)
Starring: Googie Withers, Jerome Willis, Denys Hawthorne
Director: Philip Casson, Paul Annett, Malcolm Taylor
Certificate:
A classic British prison drama, WHITHIN THESE WALLS stars Googie Withers (THE LADY VANISHES) as Faye Boswell, the new appointed governor to Stone Park jail for women. Unlike her predecessors, Faye shows a more human and benevolent approach to the problems faced by prisoners. Her liberal convictions ..read more »

33% from 9 members
Not available for rental

Within These Walls - Series 3 (1975)
Starring: Googie Withers, Mona Bruce, Denys Hawthorne
Director: Philip Casson, Paddy Russell, Malcolm Taylor
Certificate:
"Within These Walls" offered an authentic portrayal of day-to-day prison life, as well as the progress of the penal system, reflecting the shift from a Victorian ethos of punishment to an emphasis upon rehabilitation. Focussing on the trials of a newly appointed governor and her attempts to ..read more »

38% from 8 members
Not available for rental

Within These Walls (4 discs) on DVD (1974)
Starring: Googie Withers, Kathy Staff, Mona Bruce
Director: Peter Moffatt
Certificate:
1970's Drama series set inside HMP Stone Park, a women's prison. Governor Faye Boswell comes to her new job with radical schemes to liberalise the prisons strict regime, but she quickly encounters resentment from both inmates and staff. Contains all 13 episodes from series one.

72% from 97 members

It Always Rains on a Sunday on DVD (1948)
Starring: Googie Withers, Edward Chapman
Director: Robert Hamer
Certificate:
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house but she has since married and is far from keen on the idea.

66% from 528 members

Pink String and Sealing Wax on DVD (1945)
Starring: Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson
Director: Robert Hamer
Certificate:
A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.

68% from 121 members

Dead of Night on DVD (1945)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dear
Certificate:
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales....

73% from 1,611 member

Silver Fleet on DVD (1943)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight
Director: Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Certificate:
In this war drama set during WW II, an engineer in a Dutch shipyard assists the Nazis with the construction of two new kinds of submarines and finds himself a social pariah. Even his wife turns against her apparently traitorous husband. During the maiden voyage of one of the subs, the engineer ..read more »

71% from 41 members

Back Room Boy on DVD (1942)
Starring: Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt
Director: Herbert Mason
Certificate:
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The Arthur Askey Collection is a six-disc box set containing six films starring the legendary British comedian, Arthur Askey. Titles include: "Back Room Boy"; "Band Waggon"; "Bees in Paradise"; "King Arthur was a Gentleman"; "Miss London Ltd"; and "I Thank You".

68% from 116 members

One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing on DVD (1941)
Starring: Hugh Burden, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Certificate:
After being shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, an RAF bomber crew attempt to make their way to England.

67% from 686 members

Trouble Brewing on DVD (1939)
Starring: George Formby, Googie Withers, Gus McNaughton
Director: Anthony Kimmins
Certificate:
From the late 1930s to the early 1940s George Formby was one of Britain’s best loved entertainers. An all singing, all dancing, slapstick comedy genius. Thanks to his far fetched plots and perfect comic timing in such films as Come On George, Let George Do It, Bell Bottom George, South American ..read more »

70% from 79 members

Will Hay - Oh Mr Porter on DVD (1937)
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
For 20 years the railway Superintendent has wanted to fire the bungling William Porter, but as Porter is related to the Managing Director, he does not dare. When Porter is appointed to Buggleskelly, a near-derelict station in Ireland, he organises an early morning excursion train for a sinister one-..read more »

72% from 1,244 member

Will Hay - Convict 99 on DVD
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
A disgraced school master, Bejamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and is assigned in charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him ..read more »

69% from 734 members

Googie Withers facts

5 most recent films

Hotel Du Lac - 3.0 stars
Northanger Abbey - 2.5 stars
Within These Walls - Series 2 - 1.5 stars
Within These Walls - Series 3 - 2.0 stars
Within These Walls - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dead of Night - 3.5 stars
Will Hay - Oh Mr Porter - 3.5 stars
Within These Walls - 3.5 stars
Trouble Brewing - 3.5 stars
Will Hay - Convict 99 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Within These Walls - Series 2 - 1.5 stars
Within These Walls - Series 3 - 2.0 stars
Silver Fleet - 3.5 stars
Northanger Abbey - 2.5 stars
Hotel Du Lac - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Moore Marriott - 6 times - show films
Graham Moffatt - 6 times - show films
Will Hay - 4 times - show films
Denys Hawthorne - 3 times - show films
Mona Bruce - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Moffatt - 5 times - show films
Marcel Varnel - 4 times - show films
Malcolm Taylor - 2 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 2 times - show films
Giles Foster - 2 times - show films