The Weak and the Wicked(1954)

movie - first aired/released 1954-02-02 - 88 min - audience 6.5

Drama

Directed by J. Lee Thompson

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.