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...
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Hammer Film Productions
Keywords
- women's prison
- prison escape
- wrongful conviction
- prison life
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Top Cast
Beverly Michaels as Angela Booth
Joan Rice as Cleo Thompson
Thora Hird as Gran' Rafferty
Avril Angers as Bessie Brown
Paul Carpenter as Nick Randall
Hermione Baddeley as Grace
Bill Shine as Reveller
Gordon Jackson as Percy
Top Crew
Elmo Williams · Director
Val Guest · Writer
Richard H. Landau · Writer
Leonard Salzedo · Composer
Walter J. Harvey · Cinematographer
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