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What's Good for the Goose is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Menahem Golan with Sally Geeson
What's Good for the Goose (1969)
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Add to a movie listWhat's Good For The Goose, also known as Girl Trouble, is a 1969 British comedy film, and was Norman Wisdom's last starring role in a film.
It was written and directed by Menahem Golan. The film features pop music by Electric Banana otherwise known as the Pretty Things. The film uses locations around the Southport area, including the Birkdale Palace Hotel.
^ John Hamilton, Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser, Fab Press, 2005 p 126-127
Synopsis
Norman Wisdom plays a 50-something assistant bank manager called Timothy Bartlett whose marriage has become lacklustre. When he goes to a banker's conference in a coastal town he meets a fun-loving female student called Nikki (Sally Geeson) with whom he has a brief affair and abandons his work responsibilities to have a perfect day with her having fun taking in all the seaside attractions and recapturing his youthful energy.Actors
Sally Geeson
(Nikki)
Terence Alexander
(Frisby)
Norman Wisdom
(Timothy Bartlett)
David Lodge
(Porter)
Derek Francis
(Harrington)
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