Turn the Key Softly (1953)

Turn the Key Softly (1953) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jack Lee

Written By:
John Brophy
Maurice Cowan

Actors:
Yvonne Mitchell ..... Monica Marsden
Terence Morgan ..... David
Joan Collins ..... Stella Jarvis
Kathleen Harrison ..... Granny Quilliam
Thora Hird ..... Mrs. Rowan, landlady
Dorothy Alison ..... Joan
Glyn Houston ..... Bob
Geoffrey Keen ..... Mr. Gregory
Russell Waters ..... George Jenkins
Clive Morton ..... Walters
Richard Massingham ..... Bystander

Synopsis:

Three women of very different backgrounds leave Holloway Prison on the same day in this 1950s drama. Monica Marsden (Yvonne Mitchell), is a well bred young woman who served time for a crime that her smooth talking but treacherous boyfriend David (Terence Morgan) had committed. Stella Jarvis (Joan Collins) is a beautiful working class girl whose easy virtue led to her incarceration while Mrs Quilliam (Kathleen Harrison) is a shoplifter who is old enough to know better. Over the course of 24 hours, each faces a struggle with herself to avoid a quick return to her criminal ways. David still exerts a powerful hold over Monica; Stella is drawn back to her old haunts and their promise of maximum financial gain for least endeavour; Mrs Quilliam has no money but somehow has to provide for herself. By the next day, have the women succeeded in resisting the temptations put in their path, or will they find themselves back behind bars?

Three women are released from Holloway prison on the same morning into the bustle of post-war London with its trolleybuses and rationing. They meet for a meal in the West End in the evening after a day trying to pick up their lives, and with at least two of them needing to decide whether it is time to start afresh.

The story of three women in the twenty-four hours after they are released from prison. Screenplay by Jack Lee and Maurice Cowan.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 03 November, 2015.