The Weak and the Wicked
The Weak and the Wicked
Release: 1954-02-02
·Runtime: 88m
·★ 6.4
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Cast
Josephine Griffin
as Miriam
Jean Anderson
as Policewoman in Court
Eliot Makeham
as Grandad Baden
Simone Silva
as Tina
Anthony Nicholls
as Prison Chaplain
Barbara Couper
as Prison Doctor
Marjorie Rhodes
as Suzie
Mary Merrall
as Mrs Skinner
Anthony Newley
as Bob Baden
Jean Taylor Smith
as Prison Governor (Grange)
Josephine Stuart
as Andy
Ballard Berkeley
as Police Detective
Rachel Roberts
as Pat
Tom Gill
as Shop Assistant
Irene Handl
as Waitress
Sidney James
as Syd Baden
Paul Carpenter
as Joe, Bab's boyfriend
Ruth Dunning
as Prison Matron
John Gregson
as Dr. Michael Hale
Sandra Dorne
as Stella
Bessie Love
as Prisoner
Glynis Johns
as Jean Raymond
Diana Dors
as Betty Brown
Edwin Styles
as Seymour
A.E. Matthews
as Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau
Olive Sloane
as Nellie Baden
Athene Seyler
as Millie Williams
Sybil Thorndike
as Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend
Ursula Howells
as Pam Vickers
Jane Hylton
as Babs Peters
