22 Oct 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.
The Weak and the Wicked
The sensational naked shame expose of women's prisons!
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.
Top Billed Cast
Glynis Johns Jean Raymond
Diana Dors Betty Brown
John Gregson Dr. Michael Hale
Olive Sloane Nellie Baden
Rachel Roberts Pat
Jane Hylton Babs Peters
Athene Seyler Millie Williams
Sybil Thorndike Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend
Sidney James Syd Baden
Eliot Makeham Grandad Baden
Anthony Newley Bob Baden
Simone Silva Tina
Ursula Howells Pam Vickers
Jean Taylor Smith Prison Governor (Grange)
Cecil Trouncer Presiding Judge
Edwin Styles Seymour
Joan Haythorne Prison Governor (Blackdown)
Joyce Heron Prison Matron Arnold
Anthony Nicholls Prison Chaplain
Josephine Stuart Andy
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