STUDIOCANAL are delighted to announce the release of two compelling dramas from British director J. Lee Thompson into their Vintage Classics Collection THE WEAK AND THE WICKED and NO TREES IN THE STREET, both Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from 5 August. We’re giving you the chance to win both copies on Blu-Ray.
STUDIOCANAL are delighted to announce the release of two compelling dramas from British director J. Lee Thompson (Ice Cold in Alex) into their Vintage Classics Collection featuring standout performances from two legendary and much-missed British actresses Glynis Johns and Sylvia Syms. THE WEAK AND THE WICKED stars the late Diana Dors (Yield to The Night) alongside Glynis Johns (Mary Poppins), and NO TREES IN THE STREET features Herbert Lom (The Pink Panther Strikes Again) and Melvyn Hayes (Summer Holiday) alongside Sylvia Syms (Woman in a Dressing Gown) in her BAFTA-nominated performance. Both films will premiere at Bristol’s Cinema Rediscovered Festival (24-28 July) and will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from 5 August.
Based on the best-selling book ‘Who Lie in Gaol’ about the autobiographical prison experiences of author Joan Henry, THE WEAK AND THE WICKED (1954) sympathetically tracks several female inmates throughout their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. The upper middle-class Jean (Glynis Johns), the brash Betty (Diana Dors) and the pregnant Pat (Rachel Roberts) reveal what brought them behind bars, each of their stories shown in a series of flashbacks. Jean’s story shows how her gambling habit led her to incur a casino proprietor’s wrath and subsequent framing of her for fraud. Jean bonds with her fellow inmates, which improves her ordeal, and is moved to an experimental open prison for the rest of her sentence.
Released 5 years later in 1959, tense crime thriller NO TREES IN THE STREET saw J. Lee Thompson move further towards social realism, as the British trend for the ‘kitchen sink drama’ began. Adapted by TV and theatre writer Ted Willis from his own stage play (his screenplay received a BAFTA nomination), Thompson cast Sylvia Syms as Hetty, a sweet young woman who desperately tries to stop her younger teenage brother Tommy (Melvyn Hayes) descending in to crime in the slums of pre-war East London, whilst Hetty’s mother urges her to take up with Wilkie (Herbert Lom), a smooth local racketeer, in an attempt to raise the family out of poverty.
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