The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked

UK release poster
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Produced by Victor Skutezky
Starring Glynis Johns
Diana Dors
Music by Leighton Lucas
Cinematography Gilbert Taylor
Edited by Richard Best
Release dates
18 July 1954
Running time
81 min.
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Box office £213,706 (UK)[1]

The Weak and the Wicked (called Young and Willing in the United States)[2] 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.

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; notably 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

References

  1. Porter, Vincent (2000). "The Robert Clark Account". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 20. p. 502.
  2. Love, Bessie (1977). From Hollywood with Love: An Autobiography of Bessie Love. London: Elm Tree Books. p. 154. OCLC 734075937.

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