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The Weak and the Wicked

59 %|Feb 2, 1954|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.

Featured Crew

J. Lee Thompson
Writer
J. Lee Thompson
Director
Joan Henry
Novel
Victor Skutezky
Producer
Gilbert Taylor
Director of Photography
Leighton Lucas
Original Music Composer
Anne Burnaby
Writer
Robert Jones
Art Direction

Cast

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Glynis Johns
Jean Raymond
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Diana Dors
Betty Brown
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John Gregson
Dr. Michael Hale
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Olive Sloane
Nellie Baden
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Jane Hylton
Babs Peters
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Athene Seyler
Millie Williams
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Sybil Thorndike
Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend
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Sid James
Syd Baden
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Eliot Makeham
Grandad Baden
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Ursula Howells
Pam Vickers
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Jean Taylor Smith
Prison Governor (Grange)
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Cecil Trouncer
Presiding Judge
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Joan Haythorne
Prison Governor (Blackdown)
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Joyce Heron
Prison Matron Arnold
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Anthony Nicholls
Prison Chaplain
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Paul Carpenter
Joe, Bab's boyfriend
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A.E. Matthews
Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau
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Barbara Couper
Prison Doctor
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Mary Merrall
Mrs Skinner
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Tom Gill
Shop Assistant
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Herbert C. Walton
'Blue Eyes', the gardener
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Irene Handl
Waitress
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Bessie Love
Prisoner
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Hannah Watt
Prison Matron
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Margaret Diamond
Prison Matron
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Maureen Pryor
Prison Matron
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Ruth Dunning
Prison Matron
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Kathleen Michael
Prison Matron
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Jean Anderson
Policewoman in Court
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Ballard Berkeley
Police Detective
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Victor Harrington
Shopper who bumps into Nellie
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Frank Hawkins
Store Detective