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The Weak and the Wicked

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An Englishwoman (Glynis Johns) sent to a prison without bars meets other first offenders whose stories are told.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 08/16/2024
4/5
Johns provides the film with a welcome narrative through-line and a startling emotional anchor. Go to Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian 08/05/2024
4/5
It is richly flavoured, speckled with comic interludes and gloriously cast with Glynis Johns as Jean. Go to Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 08/27/2020
C+
Seemed as weak as the prison characters who were depicted as weak. Go to Full Review MFB Critics Monthly Film Bulletin 01/23/2018
The treatment of this story provides an unfortunate example of the malaise with which so much British script-writing is afflicted nowadays. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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J. Lee Thompson

Director

Glynis Johns

Jean Raymond

John Gregson

Dr. Michael Hale

Diana Dors

Betty Brown
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Synopsis An Englishwoman (Glynis Johns) sent to a prison without bars meets other first offenders whose stories are told.
Director
J. Lee Thompson
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 28m