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Women Without Men(1956)
Status: Released
Date: 1956-06-01
60%
1 Votes
Time: 1h 11m
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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...
Languages: English.
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United Kingdom
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Movie: Women Without Men
Top 10 Billed Cast
Beverly Michaels
Angela Booth
Joan Rice
Cleo Thompson
Thora Hird
Gran' Rafferty
Avril Angers
Bessie Brown
Paul Carpenter
Nick Randall
Hermione Baddeley
Grace
Bill Shine
Reveller
Gordon Jackson
Percy
Valerie White
Prison Governor
Eugene Deckers
Pierre
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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...
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1956-06-01
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