Women Without Men

Jun 1, 1956

1h 11m

★ 6.0

Overview

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...

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Hammer Film Productions

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Cast

Angela Booth

Beverly Michaels

Cleo Thompson

Joan Rice

Gran' Rafferty

Thora Hird

Bessie Brown

Avril Angers

Nick Randall

Paul Carpenter

Grace

Hermione Baddeley

Reveller

Bill Shine

Percy

Gordon Jackson

Prison Governor

Valerie White

Pierre

Eugene Deckers

Marguerite

April Olrich

Julian Lord

Ralph Michael

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