Movie: Women Without Men

Top 10 Billed Cast

Beverly Michaels
Beverly Michaels

Angela Booth

Joan Rice
Joan Rice

Cleo Thompson

Thora Hird
Thora Hird

Gran' Rafferty

Avril Angers
Avril Angers

Bessie Brown

Paul Carpenter
Paul Carpenter

Nick Randall

Hermione Baddeley
Hermione Baddeley

Grace

Bill Shine
Bill Shine

Reveller

Gordon Jackson
Gordon Jackson

Percy

Valerie White
Valerie White

Prison Governor

Eugene Deckers
Eugene Deckers

Pierre

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    In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...

  • Release Date

    1956-06-01

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    6

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    English
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