Only Sylvia Syms is missing. As prison dramas go, this is one of the most genteel. Any real tension in the story is dissipated by the many flashbacks showing how the women got there. A.E. Matthews with weedkiller is memorable. Director J. Lee Thompson did a better job for Dors a few years later with Yield to the Night .
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Romance set during the Crimean war. Barbara Greene and Patric Knowles are the star-crossed lovers who meet again when she joins Florence Nightingale. Script adapt . Selwyn Jepson, Hugh Brooke. If Sam Peckinpah had made a film for Ealing, this would be it.