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Film / 1954
The Weak and the Wicked
Directed by
J. Lee Thompson
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Glynis JohnsJean Raymond
Diana DorsBetty Brown
John GregsonDr. Michael Hale
Olive SloaneNellie Baden
Rachel RobertsPat
Jane HyltonBabs Peters
Athene SeylerMillie Williams
Sybil ThorndikeMabel Wicks, Millie's friend
Sidney JamesSyd Baden
Eliot MakehamGrandad Baden
Anthony NewleyBob Baden
Simone SilvaTina
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Ursula HowellsPam Vickers
Jean Taylor SmithPrison Governor (Grange)
Cecil TrouncerPresiding Judge
Edwin StylesSeymour
Joan HaythornePrison Governor (Blackdown)
Joyce HeronPrison Matron Arnold
Anthony NichollsPrison Chaplain
Josephine StuartAndy
Paul CarpenterJoe, Bab's boyfriend
A.E. MatthewsHarry Wicks, Mabel's beau
Barbara CouperPrison Doctor
Mary MerrallMrs Skinner
Marjorie RhodesSuzie
Josephine GriffinMiriam
Thea GregoryNancy
Tom GillShop Assistant
Herbert C. Walton'Blue Eyes', the gardener
Irene HandlWaitress
Sandra DorneStella
Bessie LovePrisoner
Marjorie StewartPrisoner
Hannah WattPrison Matron
Margaret DiamondPrison Matron
Maureen PryorPrison Matron
Ruth DunningPrison Matron
Kathleen MichaelPrison Matron
Jean AndersonPolicewoman in Court
Ballard BerkeleyPolice Detective
Victor HarringtonShopper who bumps into Nellie
Frank HawkinsStore Detective
Charles SaynorPoliceman
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