The Weak And The Wicked Blu-Ray

Glynis Johns, Diana Dors, and Sybil Thorndike star in this powerful and sympathetic drama depicting the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison. The Weak and the Wicked is based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by Joan Henry, an author and former debutante who used her own experiences in prison as inspiration.autobiographical novel by Joan Henry, an author and former debutante who drew on her own prison experiences for the novel and the classic film Yield to the Night, and directed by Henry's future husband, Oscar nominee J. Lee-Thompson. Jean Raymond, an upper-class woman with a gambling addiction, is sentenced to twelve months in prison for her inability to pay her debts. At first, she is extremely depressed by life in the women's prison, but gradually her misery is alleviated by the many close friends she makes there.