Film

The Weak and the Wicked

1954 · 1h 28m · Drama

The sensational naked shame expose of women's prisons!

IMDb

6.4

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

Glynis Johns

Jean Raymond

Diana Dors

Betty Brown

John Gregson

Dr. Michael Hale

Olive Sloane

Nellie Baden

Rachel Roberts

Pat

Jane Hylton

Babs Peters

Athene Seyler

Millie Williams

Sybil Thorndike

Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend

Sidney James

Syd Baden

Eliot Makeham

Grandad Baden

Anthony Newley

Bob Baden

Simone Silva

Tina

Ursula Howells

Pam Vickers

Jean Taylor Smith

Prison Governor (Grange)

Cecil Trouncer

Presiding Judge

Edwin Styles

Seymour

• J. Lee ThompsonDirector · Writer
• Anne BurnabyWriter
• Joan HenryNovel
• Victor SkutezkyProducer
• Gilbert TaylorDirector of Photography
• Leighton LucasOriginal Music Composer
• Richard BestEditor

Release date

February 2, 1954

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama

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