The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked (1954)

The sensational naked shame expose of women's prisons!

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1954-02-02
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 10 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Summary

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.

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  • Glynis Johns

    as Jean Raymond
  • Diana Dors

    as Betty Brown
  • John Gregson

    as Dr. Michael Hale
  • Olive Sloane

    as Nellie Baden
  • Rachel Roberts

    as Pat
  • Jane Hylton

    as Babs Peters
  • Athene Seyler

    as Millie Williams
  • Sybil Thorndike

    as Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend
  • Sid James

    as Syd Baden
  • Eliot Makeham

    as Grandad Baden
  • Anthony Newley

    as Bob Baden
  • Simone Silva

    as Tina
  • Ursula Howells

    as Pam Vickers
  • Jean Taylor Smith

    as Prison Governor (Grange)
  • Cecil Trouncer

    as Presiding Judge
  • Edwin Styles

    as Seymour
  • Joan Haythorne

    as Prison Governor (Blackdown)
  • Joyce Heron

    as Prison Matron Arnold
  • Anthony Nicholls

    as Prison Chaplain
  • Josephine Stuart

    as Andy
  • Paul Carpenter

    as Joe, Bab's boyfriend
  • A.E. Matthews

    as Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau
  • Barbara Couper

    as Prison Doctor
  • Mary Merrall

    as Mrs Skinner
  • Marjorie Rhodes

    as Suzie
  • Josephine Griffin

    as Miriam
  • Thea Gregory

    as Nancy
  • Tom Gill

    as Shop Assistant
  • Herbert C. Walton

    as 'Blue Eyes', the gardener
  • Irene Handl

    as Waitress
  • Sandra Dorne

    as Stella
  • Bessie Love

    as Prisoner
  • Marjorie Stewart

    as Prisoner
  • Hannah Watt

    as Prison Matron
  • Margaret Diamond

    as Prison Matron
  • Maureen Pryor

    as Prison Matron
  • Ruth Dunning

    as Prison Matron
  • Kathleen Michael

    as Prison Matron
  • Jean Anderson

    as Policewoman in Court
  • Ballard Berkeley

    as Police Detective
  • Victor Harrington

    as Shopper who bumps into Nellie
  • Frank Hawkins

    as Store Detective
  • Charles Saynor

    as Policeman
Directing J. Lee Thompson Director
Writing Joan Henry Novel
Writing J. Lee Thompson Writer
Writing Anne Burnaby Writer
Production Victor Skutezky Producer
Sound Leighton Lucas Original Music Composer
Camera Gilbert Taylor Director of Photography
Art Robert Jones Art Direction
Editing Richard Best Editor
Writing Frederick Gotfurt Script Editor
Production Robert Lennard Casting Director
Production Gordon Scott Production Manager
Directing George Pollard Assistant Director
Camera Val Stewart Camera Operator
Sound Les Hammond Sound Recordist
Directing June Faithfull Continuity
Costume & Make-Up Bob Clark Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up A.G. Scott Hairstylist
Sound Louis Levy Music Director

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