I like this movie for its glimpse of casino life, and also the crummy bedsit compulsive gambler Glynis Johns ends up in after she loses all her dough and writes a cheque she can't meet. But glam friend Ursula Howells turns up and gets her a job in a dress shop (wish we'd see a slice of that life). Howells frames her on behalf of the casino owner, and Johns ends up in prison, where she meets darling Diana Dors looking very young and slim and yearning for "Norman" who just used her to stash the stolen goods and never writes or visits. They also meet Olive Sloane, great as usual as a feisty shoplifter (crimes seen in flashback). I can't watch the bit about Jane Hylton neglecting her baby - too sad. And the plight of women who give birth behind bars is heartbreaking - the babies are taken away at nine months and most are adopted.
Dors and Johns end up in an open prison that looks rather idyllic with rug-making workshops in the rose garden. They meet an old dear (Athene Seyler) feeding the hens and we see her flashback - a complicated story in which she ends up blackmailing Sybil Thorndike.
The only off-putting aspect is the way the female governors bang on about "trust" and "honour" and "letting me down" and of course "letting yourself down". I hope this rhetoric is now on the scrap heap.
If you like this one, you'll love I Believe in you with Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Joan Collins and Ursula Howells again - the probation service this time.
Dors and Johns end up in an open prison that looks rather idyllic with rug-making workshops in the rose garden. They meet an old dear (Athene Seyler) feeding the hens and we see her flashback - a complicated story in which she ends up blackmailing Sybil Thorndike.
The only off-putting aspect is the way the female governors bang on about "trust" and "honour" and "letting me down" and of course "letting yourself down". I hope this rhetoric is now on the scrap heap.
If you like this one, you'll love I Believe in you with Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Joan Collins and Ursula Howells again - the probation service this time.