The Weak and the Wicked
The sensational naked shame expose of women's prisons!
1954 · 1h 28m · Approved
Drama
Directed by
J. Lee Thompson
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- J. Lee Thompson Director
- Glynis Johns as Jean Raymond
- Diana Dors as Betty Brown
- John Gregson as Dr. Michael Hale
- Olive Sloane as Nellie Baden, inmate
- Rachel Roberts as Pat, pregnant inmate
- Jane Hylton as Babs Peters, inmate
- Athene Seyler as Millie Williams, inmate
- Sybil Thorndike Cast
- Sidney James Cast
- Eliot Makeham Cast
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