The Weak and the Wicked
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Director J. Lee Thompson Country United Kingdom | 6/10 IMDb Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 18 July 1954 Tagline Women...Barred From Men! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Weak and the Wicked (called Young and Willing in the United States) is a 1954 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson based on the book by his wife, Joan Henry, starring Glynis Johns, and Diana Dors.
Contents
Based on a best-selling book and prison experiences of author Joan Henry, director J. Lee Thompson's prison saga explores the life of inmates behind bars where innocence is lost in the world of vice. Despite its pulpy pot-boiler title, the film settles for earnest social drama over melodrama.
Plot
Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not.
Female prisoners talk about the events that brought them there and each of their stories is detailed in a series of flashbacks; the upper-class Jean (Glynis Johns), the brash Betty (Diana Dors) and the pregnant Pat (Rachel Roberts). The film follows the inmates' progress behind bars; Jean's ordeal improves after some sympathetic bonding with her fellow inmates, followed by a move to an experimental open prison.
Cast
Reception
The film was successful at the British box office. According to the National Film Finance Corporation, the film made a comfortable profit.
References
The Weak and the Wicked WikipediaThe Weak and the Wicked IMDb The Weak and the Wicked themoviedb.org