
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.

as Jean Raymond

as Betty Brown

as Dr. Michael Hale

as Nellie Baden

as Pat

as Babs Peters

as Millie Williams

as Mabel Wicks, Millie's friend

as Syd Baden

as Grandad Baden

as Bob Baden

as Tina

as Pam Vickers

as Prison Governor (Grange)

as Presiding Judge

as Seymour

as Prison Governor (Blackdown)

as Prison Matron Arnold

as Prison Chaplain

as Andy

as Joe, Bab's boyfriend

as Harry Wicks, Mabel's beau

as Prison Doctor

as Mrs Skinner

as Suzie

as Miriam

as Nancy

as Shop Assistant

as 'Blue Eyes', the gardener

as Waitress

as Stella

as Prisoner

as Prisoner

as Prison Matron

as Prison Matron

as Prison Matron

as Prison Matron

as Prison Matron

as Policewoman in Court

as Police Detective

as Shopper who bumps into Nellie

as Store Detective

as Policeman