Weak and the Wicked, The
Date: 1954
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Production Company: Marble Arch Productions
Stars: Glynis Johns, Diana Dors, John Gregson, Sidney James
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire
Region(s): South East R-Z
Storyline:
Female prisoners talk about the events that brought them there and each of their stories is detailed in a series of flashbacks. The film follows the inmates’ progress behind bars, in particular two inmates who went to prison for things they hadn’t been involved in.
Additional Information:
Screen captures uploaded by Ray Edwards
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- Capture 1
- 31 Aug 2018
Jean Raymond (Glynis Johns), whilst talking to Betty Brown (Diana Dors) about how she ended up in prison, we see this flashback of Jean leaving the dress shop she worked at.

Wilton Place, London SW1 now totally redeveloped to 'The Berkeley', a luxury hotel that has the facility to design your own Ferrari. (RL)
- Capture 2
- 31 Aug 2018
Her we see Jean with her manager outside the dress shop.

Wilton Place, London SW1 looking towards Knightsbridge. At least one building remains to help frame the shot. (RL)
- Capture 3
- 31 Aug 2018
Next we see Jean in a later scene, again outside the dress shop, being escorted to a police car by her arresting officer.

Wilton Place, London SW1 looking towards Knightsbridge. Didn't see a police car but no shortage of taxi's. (RL)
- Capture 4
- 16 Nov 2022
Majority of the first half of the movie is set inside prison. Here we see the open prison that Jean and Betty get transferred to. HM Prison The Grange in the movie.

Steve Randall identifies this site as Oakland College, St Albans, Hertfordshire. The 18th century mansion was bought by the then Hertford County Council in 1921 and was established as the Hertfordshire County Council Agricultural Institute. In 1991 it became Oakland College.
- Capture 5
- 16 Nov 2022
Here we see many of the inmates outside in the prison grounds.

Steve Randall identifies this site as the grass lawn in front of Oakland College, St Albans, Hertfordshire.
- Capture 6
- 'Now' required
Whilst in the open prison, two of the inmates discuss how they ended up in prison and we see the flashback. The two ladies discuss how one of their marriages, entered into to gain money as the husband was old, didn't quite work out that way.
- Capture 7
- 'Now' required
Seeing and advert for Weed Killer gives the ladies an idea, which eventually ends them in prison.
- Capture 8
- 11 Nov 2019
Being in an open prison, Jean and Betty find they are allowed into town. Here they arrive in the local prison transport. Market Place, Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. (RL)

Antony Blair (AB) captured this view facing north east on Market Square with the 1876 Clock Tower to the left of centre.
- Capture 9
- 11 Nov 2019
Jean and Betty getting to grips with the outside world. Market Square, Aylesbury. (RL)

Pavement work continues on a wet autumn day some 65 years later. (AB)
- Capture 10
- 11 Nov 2019
Seeing a local policeman approaching, they decide to ask him the time. Market Place in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. (RL)

The arches next to the Court House on Market Square. (AB)
- Capture 11
- 11 Nov 2019
They visit a local dress shop window discussing how unfashionable they both look. It looks like the Midland Bank, now HSBC, Market Square, in Aylesbury on the far right. (RL)

Taken by Antony (AB) from a similar position, now without the foreground building.
- Capture 12
- 11 Nov 2019
Looking across the street, Jean and Betty see a place they can go and get something to eat. I think that the restaurant premises have suffered from redevelopment but that looks like The Bell public house on Market Square, Aylesbury in the background. (RL)

Much changed scene with only The Bell surviving behind the burger van. (AB)
- Capture 13
- 11 Nov 2019
Whilst paying for their food, they decide to watch a movie. Here they are seen leaving the cinema. Market Square in Aylesbury. (RL)

The canopy has gone but the passageway next to The Green Man public house remains. It leads to the Market Theatre which is where Ronnie Barker performed for the first time in 1948. (AB)
- Capture 14
- 11 Nov 2019
Whilst walking about town, they remark on this building being like the first prison they were in. Aylesbury Crown Court in the Market Place, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. (RL)

The Court House, built in 1740, where the great train robbers stood on trial. (AB)
- Capture 15
- 16 Nov 2022
Jean gets remission and is see leaving The Grange open prison and her lover Dr Michael Hale (John Gregson) is waiting for her as a surprise.

Steve Randall identifies this site as Oakland College, St Albans, Hertfordshire

