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The Weak and the Wicked
UNITED KINGDOM · 1954

The Weak and the Wicked

J. Lee Thompson
prison drama gambling addiction class struggle female friendship redemption
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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

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