The Weak and the Wicked

6.364

88 minutes

2/2/1954

Overview

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.

Cast List

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
Sid 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