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