The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked

The sensational naked shame expose of women's prisons!

1954•1h 28m•6.4/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.4/10(11)

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.

Open in PickFlick

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Glynis Johns

Glynis Johns

Jean Raymond

Diana Dors

Diana Dors

Betty Brown

John Gregson

John Gregson

Dr. Michael Hale

Olive Sloane

Olive Sloane

Nellie Baden

Rachel Roberts

Rachel Roberts

Pat

Jane Hylton

Jane Hylton

Babs Peters

Athene Seyler

Athene Seyler

Millie Williams

Sybil Thorndike

Sybil Thorndike

Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend

Sidney James

Sidney James

Syd Baden

Eliot Makeham

Eliot Makeham

Grandad Baden

Anthony Newley

Anthony Newley

Bob Baden

Simone Silva

Simone Silva

Tina

Ursula Howells

Ursula Howells

Pam Vickers

Jean Taylor Smith

Jean Taylor Smith

Prison Governor (Grange)

Cecil Trouncer

Presiding Judge

Edwin Styles

Edwin Styles

Seymour

Joan Haythorne

Prison Governor (Blackdown)

Joyce Heron

Prison Matron Arnold

Anthony Nicholls

Anthony Nicholls

Prison Chaplain

Josephine Stuart

Josephine Stuart

Andy

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