Women Without Men | |
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Directed by | Elmo Williams Herbert Glazer |
Screenplay by | Val Guest Richard Landau |
Based on | a story by Richard Landau |
Produced by | Anthony Hinds |
Starring | Beverly Michaels Joan Rice |
Cinematography | Walter J. Harvey |
Edited by | James Needs |
Music by | Leonard Salzedo John Hollingsworth |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Exclusive Films (U.K.) Associated Film Releasing Corporation (U.S.) |
Release date | 2 April 1956 |
Running time | 71 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Women Without Men is a 1956 British drama film directed by Elmo Williams and Herbert Glazer and starring Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice and Hermione Baddeley. [1] The screenplay concerns a woman who is unjustly sent to prison for an act that was really one of self-defence and who escapes from prison in order to keep a rendezvous with her would-be fiancé, who has been out of the country and unaware of her plight.
For U.S. release the film was retitled Blonde Bait and substantially re-edited, with new scenes filmed by the American distributors (with additional American actors - e.g. Jim Davis replacing Paul Carpenter as Nick) and notable character and plot changes, such as turning the heroine into a gangster's moll, for whom the prison break is engineered by the police in hopes she will lead them to her much-wanted fugitive boyfriend. [2] Other new actors were Richard Travis, Harry Lauter and Paul Cavanagh. Beverly Michaels also appeared in the film's new ending sequence.
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