The Weak and the Wicked
The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked

Watch Movie
1954
1h 28m
6.4(11 votes)
Drama

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.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Cast & Crew

43 members
Acting

Glynis Johns

Jean Raymond

Glynis Johns
Acting

Diana Dors

Betty Brown

Diana Dors
Acting

John Gregson

Dr. Michael Hale

John Gregson
Acting

Olive Sloane

Nellie Baden

Olive Sloane
Acting

Rachel Roberts

Pat

Rachel Roberts
Acting

Jane Hylton

Babs Peters

Jane Hylton
Acting

Athene Seyler

Millie Williams

Athene Seyler
Acting

Sybil Thorndike

Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend

Sybil Thorndike
Acting

Sidney James

Syd Baden

Sidney James
Acting

Eliot Makeham

Grandad Baden

Eliot Makeham
Acting

Anthony Newley

Bob Baden

Anthony Newley
Acting

Simone Silva

Tina

Simone Silva
Acting

Ursula Howells

Pam Vickers

Ursula Howells
Acting

Jean Taylor Smith

Prison Governor (Grange)

Jean Taylor Smith
Acting

Cecil Trouncer

Presiding Judge

No Image
Acting

Edwin Styles

Seymour

Edwin Styles
Acting

Joan Haythorne

Prison Governor (Blackdown)

No Image
Acting

Joyce Heron

Prison Matron Arnold

No Image
Acting

Anthony Nicholls

Prison Chaplain

Anthony Nicholls
Acting

Josephine Stuart

Andy

Josephine Stuart
Acting

Paul Carpenter

Joe, Bab's boyfriend

Paul Carpenter
Acting

A.E. Matthews

Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau

A.E. Matthews
Acting

Barbara Couper

Prison Doctor

Barbara Couper
Acting

Mary Merrall

Mrs Skinner

Mary Merrall
Acting

Marjorie Rhodes

Suzie

Marjorie Rhodes
Acting

Josephine Griffin

Miriam

Josephine Griffin
Acting

Thea Gregory

Nancy

No Image
Acting

Tom Gill

Shop Assistant

Tom Gill
Acting

Herbert C. Walton

'Blue Eyes', the gardener

No Image
Acting

Irene Handl

Waitress

Irene Handl
Acting

Sandra Dorne

Stella

Sandra Dorne
Acting

Bessie Love

Prisoner

Bessie Love
Acting

Marjorie Stewart

Prisoner

No Image
Acting

Hannah Watt

Prison Matron

No Image
Acting

Margaret Diamond

Prison Matron

No Image
Acting

Maureen Pryor

Prison Matron

No Image
Acting

Ruth Dunning

Prison Matron

Ruth Dunning
Acting

Kathleen Michael

Prison Matron

No Image
Acting

Jean Anderson

Policewoman in Court

Jean Anderson
Acting

Ballard Berkeley

Police Detective

Ballard Berkeley
Acting

Victor Harrington

Shopper who bumps into Nellie

No Image
Acting

Frank Hawkins

Store Detective

No Image
Acting

Charles Saynor

Policeman

No Image

Similar Movies

99 Women
5.3
1969

99 Women

Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitives discover that escaping can be as dangerous as remaining in the prison.

Movie
Women's Prison
5.7
1955

Women's Prison

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

Movie
Lady Gangster
5.5
1942

Lady Gangster

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.

Movie
Vera Drake
7.2
2004

Vera Drake

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Movie
White Oleander
7.1
2002

White Oleander

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

Movie
Prison Without Bars
6.0
1938

Prison Without Bars

Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.

Movie
Double Jeopardy
6.6
1999

Double Jeopardy

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.

Movie
People I Know
5.2
2002

People I Know

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

Movie
The Edge of Heaven
7.2
2007

The Edge of Heaven

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.

Movie
Women in Prison
4.6
1985

Women in Prison

After graduation, a young woman gets his first job in the women's prison in the province. The story follows her struggle to survive in a small town with her small child, alcohol addiction, and the battle with the prisoners and prison brutality and other schemers who wanted to remove her from working spot.

Movie
The Reader
7.5
2008

The Reader

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Movie
Mondkalb
6.3
2008

Mondkalb

After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic balance through a retreat into loneliness. A man and a child interrupt her plan and force her to reengage. Alex dares to emerge from her shell and learns again how thin the ice is and how fragile happiness is, small though it may be.

Movie
Madonnas
6.3
2007

Madonnas

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.

Movie
Lady Vengeance
7.5
2005

Lady Vengeance

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

Movie
Yield to the Night
6.9
1956

Yield to the Night

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Movie
3.3
1975

Bald-Headed Betty

Poor Betty gets drugged and kidnapped at a teen beach party and finds herself in clutches of a sleazy prostitution ring. After trying to escape, her head is shaved as punishment. Soon enough, she's the star of the stable for all the local bald freaks.

Movie
Branded Female Convicts
1984

Branded Female Convicts

In an Edo-era women's prison, Ochiyo manages to escape execution during a fire and becomes determined to seek revenge against her harsh jailers.

Movie
Chained Heat
5.0
1983

Chained Heat

Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after driving drunk and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better.

Movie
Madea Goes to Jail
6.5
2009

Madea Goes to Jail

After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Hardaway lands a case that's too personal to handle: that of a young prostitute and former drug addict named Candace, also a childhood friend. When Candace winds up in jail, Madea takes the young woman under her protective wing.

Movie
Four Minutes
6.8
2006

Four Minutes

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.

Movie

Recommended Movies

Niagara
6.8
1953

Niagara

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.

Movie
Crossed Tracks
6.6
2007

Crossed Tracks

The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?

Movie
Hot Curves
5.7
1930

Hot Curves

The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.

Movie
Cries and Whispers
7.9
1972

Cries and Whispers

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

Movie
Shutter Island
8.2
2010

Shutter Island

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Movie
Buffalo '66
7.1
1998

Buffalo '66

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

Movie
The Year of Living Dangerously
6.7
1982

The Year of Living Dangerously

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

Movie
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
7.4
1992

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

Movie
The Cameraman
7.8
1928

The Cameraman

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Movie
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
8.2
1970

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

Movie
Rambo III
6.2
1988

Rambo III

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.

Movie
Shane
7.4
1953

Shane

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

Movie
Oppenheimer
8.0
2023

Oppenheimer

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Movie
The Insider
7.5
1999

The Insider

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Movie
The 39 Steps
7.3
1935

The 39 Steps

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.

Movie
Back to the Future
8.3
1985

Back to the Future

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

Movie
Purple Noon
7.6
1960

Purple Noon

Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.

Movie
The Grifters
6.5
1990

The Grifters

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

Movie
The Isle
6.9
2000

The Isle

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.

Movie
Love and Death
7.5
1975

Love and Death

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Movie