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UNITED KINGDOM · 1954

The Weak and the Wicked

J. Lee Thompson
Synopsis

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 inmate

Year1954
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorJ. Lee Thompson
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