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The Weak and the Wicked (1954)

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.

Rated NR | Length 88 minutes

Actors

Glynis Johns | Diana Dors | John Gregson | Olive Sloane | Rachel Roberts | Jane Hylton | Athene Seyler | Sybil Thorndike | Sid James | Eliot Makeham | Anthony Newley | Simone Silva | Ursula Howells | Jean Taylor Smith | Cecil Trouncer | Edwin Styles | Joan Haythorne | Joyce Heron | Anthony Nicholls | Josephine Stuart | Paul Carpenter | A.E. Matthews | Barbara Couper | Mary Merrall | Marjorie Rhodes | Josephine Griffin | Thea Gregory | Tom Gill | Herbert C. Walton | Irene Handl | Sandra Dorne | Bessie Love | Marjorie Stewart | Hannah Watt | Margaret Diamond | Maureen Pryor | Ruth Dunning | Kathleen Michael | Jean Anderson | Ballard Berkeley | Victor Harrington | Frank Hawkins | Charles Saynor