The Weak and the Wicked
Drama
The sensational naked shame expose of women's prisons!
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.
1954-02-02
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Cast
Director
J. Lee Thompson
Glynis Johns as Jean Raymond
Diana Dors as Betty Brown
John Gregson as Dr. Michael Hale
Rachel Roberts as Pat
Jane Hylton as Babs Peters
Athene Seyler as Millie Williams
Sybil Thorndike as Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend
Sidney James as Syd Baden
Eliot Makeham as Grandad Baden
Anthony Newley as Bob Baden
Simone Silva as Tina
Jean Taylor Smith as Prison Governor (Grange)
Edwin Styles as Seymour
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
Tom Gill as Shop Assistant
Irene Handl as Waitress
Sandra Dorne as Stella
Bessie Love as Prisoner
Marjorie Stewart as Prisoner
Ruth Dunning as Prison Matron
Jean Anderson as Policewoman in Court
Ballard Berkeley as Police Detective