
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.
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Glynis Johns as Jean Raymond

Diana Dors as Betty Brown

John Gregson as Dr. Michael Hale

Olive Sloane as Nellie Baden

Rachel Roberts as Pat

Jane Hylton as Babs Peters

Athene Seyler as Millie Williams

Sybil Thorndike as Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend

Sidney James as Syd Baden

Eliot Makeham as Grandad Baden

Anthony Newley as Bob Baden

Simone Silva as Tina

Ursula Howells as Pam Vickers

Jean Taylor Smith as Prison Governor (Grange)

Cecil Trouncer as Presiding Judge

Edwin Styles as Seymour

Joan Haythorne as Prison Governor (Blackdown)

Joyce Heron as Prison Matron Arnold

Anthony Nicholls as Prison Chaplain

Josephine Stuart as Andy

Paul Carpenter as Joe, Bab's boyfriend

A.E. Matthews as Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau

Barbara Couper as Prison Doctor

Mary Merrall as Mrs Skinner

Marjorie Rhodes as Suzie

Josephine Griffin as Miriam

Thea Gregory as Nancy

Tom Gill as Shop Assistant

Herbert C. Walton as 'Blue Eyes', the gardener

Irene Handl as Waitress

Sandra Dorne as Stella

Bessie Love as Prisoner

Marjorie Stewart as Prisoner

Hannah Watt as Prison Matron

Margaret Diamond as Prison Matron

Maureen Pryor as Prison Matron

Ruth Dunning as Prison Matron

Kathleen Michael as Prison Matron

Jean Anderson as Policewoman in Court

Ballard Berkeley as Police Detective

Victor Harrington as Shopper who bumps into Nellie

Frank Hawkins as Store Detective

Charles Saynor as Policeman
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