The Weak and the Wicked (1954)

6.5/10 88 min Drama

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.

Cast

Glynis Johns

Jean Raymond

Diana Dors

Betty Brown

John Gregson

Dr. Michael Hale

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

Jean Taylor Smith

Prison Governor (Grange)

Edwin Styles

Seymour

Anthony Nicholls

Prison Chaplain

Josephine Stuart

Andy

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