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A spanking scene from the unusual film The Girl Who Couldn't Quite from 1950, starring Bill Owen and Elizabeth Henson - in only her 2nd screen role - as a girl who has never smiled, let alone laughed, until one day she sees a tramp (Owen) and finds him enchanting. The family persuade him to stay on at the house in a bid to help their strange daughter, but Owen's tramp is straight talking and stands no nonsense, and when Henson is rude to one of her uncles, he decides to teach her a lesson. "You ever heard of etiquette?" he asks her after asking her to show her to a seat in the garden. "No Tim," she replies. "Well, this is it!" says Owen, bending her over his knee and spanking her backside repeatedly while she kicks and screams fruitlessly, unable to prevent her humiliation. Afterwards he presumes she wants him to leave, but she begs him to stay. "Just no more etiquette," she adds cautiously, now chastened by her experience. This scene was used for the promotion of the film in cinemas, intriguingly enough.

For Elizabeth Henson, hers was a short career and by 1956 her film career was over. However, she lived to the grand old age of 90, dying in 2016, and in this film she certainly will be forever young. As for Bill Owen, he would become famous on TV for another screen tramp, that of Compo Cissinite in the long running UK comedy Last of the Summer Wine from it's start in 1973 to his death in 1999, aged 85.