Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

mark.waltz Having done several movies where she was behind bars, Beverly Michaels began to lighten her image after starting off as the opportunistic hard boiled tramp, and here, is the victim, ending up in a British women's prison after defending herself against a violent lover. Sure, he had found out that she was planning on leaving him for the man she really loved, but with his hands on her throat and a quick way of defending herself at her disposal, the sympathy instantly lies with Michaels. The prison she ends up in isn't the brutal American detention center that audiences had become familiar with through 1950's "Caged" and 1955's "Women's Prison" (or even another Beverly Michaels melodrama, "Betrayed Women"), but one where the warden seems to be concerned about her charges, encouraging the emotionally broken Michaels to utilize the library and try to make friends. When Beverly rescues a girl who accidentally catches on fire in the prison kitchen, the warden (Valarie Wright) decides to fool her into escaping as a part of a plot by the U.S. State Department in capturing her criminal boyfriend.This fails to convince on two merits. It lacks the camp value of other women's prison films, and the subplot of Michaels and several other inmates being allowed to escape (one of them with a baby!) just seems totally unrealistic, no matter the motivations behind it. On the run, they find help in the most unbelievable of places, and while hiding out in the home of Hermoine Baddley's, Michaels must act all heroic to prevent Ms. Baddley from taking the baby of the missing mother to the authorities. It's all well intended, fairly entertaining, and sincerely acted, but most of it, I just couldn't buy. Thora Hird as the elderly inmate they refer to as "Granny" gets to steal every scene she's in, with Joan Rice as the other escapee and future Jock Ewing (Jim Davis) in the small part of Michaels' traitorous lover. Paul Cavanaugh is commanding as the American state department worker who initializes the escape, while Ralph Michael as the older lover whom Michaels defends herself from is completely repulsive. It's a mixed bag I wanted to like more, but lacking in the toughness of other women in prison movies and containing a plot I had a hard time swallowing, I have to rank this as one of the weaker films in that genre. Even though others are worse, this one just ends up being not very interesting.

Leofwine_draca WOMEN WITHOUT MEN is a low key drama/thriller made by Hammer Films. The plot is somewhat unwieldy and involves the authorities looking for a known gangster. Their only lead is his girlfriend, who may lead them to him, but the problem is she's just been sent to prison. The authorities decide to arrange a jailbreak and tail her. This back story doesn't really sit too well with me and feels a little too elaborate and over the top. However, once the women escape this becomes quite fun, particularly because Thora Hird is the unlikely leader of the escapees. Hird was best known for her domestic, down-to-earth roles during the era; it was rare to see her out of a kitchen, so watching her racing a car through the streets and evading the police makes for great fun.

MartinHafer Angela Booth is a singer and performing to crowds in London. However, she is attacked by Julius Lord and to protect herself from this lecherous old goat, she hits him with her mirror. He is well- connected and this American girl is sent to a women's prison...despite being entirely innocent of everything except trying to keep herself from being molested! However, the State Department in the US is interested in her. It's not that she's done anything wrong...but her boyfriend, Randall, is scum...a traitor who collaborated with the Nazis during WWII and they want him! But she won't willingly help, so they arrange for her to be able to escape from prison in order to follow her to a meeting with Randall...or so they hope. This summary is not exactly the same as the one on IMDb, as it is not quite correct.This is an adequate movie...nothing bad but nothing great about it either. It is the epitome of the term 'time-passer' and the finale is less than well handled--it's over and done with way too quickly.

howardmorley Yes the late Thora Hird could be a comedienne in roles such as this playing Granny Rafferty, opposite American Beverley Michaels who plays her fellow inmate in a women's prison.Previous reviewers have outlined the plot of a tale of post WWII & the Cold War where both Scotland Yard and the U.S. State Dept mount a joint venture to entrap a traitor/murderer played by Jim Davis (most known in this country for playing JR's father in early episodes of "Dallas").The reference to "Lindberg" in the screenplay I assumed referred to aviator Charles Lindberg when the three escaped women prisoners and baby use an old MG to make their getaway, with Thora joking at the wheel.They make their getaway with the connivance of UK/US authorities before the denouement when Beverley finally realises the rotten relationship she had with the Jim Davis character.Yes I rated it 7/10 and was entertained on this, my first ever viewing.