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Women Without Men (1956)

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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Top billed cast

Beverly MichaelsAngela Booth
Joan RiceCleo Thompson
Thora HirdGran' Rafferty
Avril AngersBessie Brown
Paul CarpenterNick Randall
Hermione BaddeleyGrace
Bill ShineReveller
Gordon JacksonPercy
Valerie WhitePrison Governor
Eugene DeckersPierre

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