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The Weak and the Wicked (1954)

The Weak and the Wicked (1954)

Drama

The sensational naked shame expose of women's prisons!

Release Date: 1954, February 2
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
Countries: United Kingdom
Cast: Tom Gill, Rachel Roberts, Paul Carpenter, Glynis Johns, Victor Harrington, Bessie Love, Anthony Nicholls, Ballard Berkeley, Irene Handl, John Gregson, A.E. Matthews, Athene Seyler

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.

Keywords:

women's prison