The Weak and the Wicked

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.

6.4

88 min

Cast

Glynis Johns

as Jean Raymond

Diana Dors

as Betty Brown

John Gregson

as Dr. Michael Hale

Olive Sloane

as Nellie Baden

Rachel Roberts

as Pat

Jane Hylton

as Babs Peters

Athene Seyler

as Millie Williams

Sybil Thorndike

as Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend

Sidney James

as Syd Baden

Eliot Makeham

as Grandad Baden

Anthony Newley

as Bob Baden

Simone Silva

as Tina

Ursula Howells

as Pam Vickers

Jean Taylor Smith

as Prison Governor (Grange)

Cecil Trouncer

as Presiding Judge

Edwin Styles

as Seymour

Joan Haythorne

as Prison Governor (Blackdown)

Joyce Heron

as Prison Matron Arnold

Anthony Nicholls

as Prison Chaplain

Josephine Stuart

as Andy

Paul Carpenter

as Joe, Bab's boyfriend

A.E. Matthews

as Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau

Barbara Couper

as Prison Doctor

Mary Merrall

as Mrs Skinner

Marjorie Rhodes

as Suzie

Josephine Griffin

as Miriam

Thea Gregory

as Nancy

Tom Gill

as Shop Assistant

Herbert C. Walton

as 'Blue Eyes', the gardener

Irene Handl

as Waitress

Sandra Dorne

as Stella

Bessie Love

as Prisoner

Marjorie Stewart

as Prisoner

Hannah Watt

as Prison Matron

Margaret Diamond

as Prison Matron

Maureen Pryor

as Prison Matron

Ruth Dunning

as Prison Matron

Kathleen Michael

as Prison Matron

Jean Anderson

as Policewoman in Court

Ballard Berkeley

as Police Detective

Victor Harrington

as Shopper who bumps into Nellie

Frank Hawkins

as Store Detective

Charles Saynor

as Policeman

Director

J. Lee Thompson