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This clip comes from Trouble Brewing (1939), a George Formby film that saw him cast with the lovely Googie Withers as they stumble upon a counterfeit gang. In this scene Googie has found the hideout, but is captured before she can call the police and helpfully faints so the villain's henchman can toss her over his shoulder. In doing so, it looks as if he enjoys touching up Googie's bum rather too much as grabs it to sling her over, and keeps one hand firmly on her cheek as he carries her inside to tie her up. And who can blame him?

As for the actress herself, she gained her unusual name from her Ayah (she was born in Karachi, India), who nicknamed her Little Pigeon (ie, Googie) from her real first name of Georgette. She had memorable supporting roles in The Lady Vanishes, and the Will Hay comedy Convict 99 (both 1938, and both involving her stripped to her underwear) before finding stardom in 1945 with Pink String & Sealing Wax. She moved to Australia in the 1950's with her husband John McCallum, finding later fame on UK TV in Within These Walls (1974). Her last film role was in Shine (1996), but she lived to the grand age of 94 before she died in 2011, a year after her husband, who had died aged 96.