Glynis johns, diana dors and sybil thorndike star in this powerful, sympathetic drama tracing the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison'. '.strtoupper('b')ased on the best selling semi autobiographical novel by joan henry a writer and former debutante who further drew upon her own prison experience for the novel and classic film yield to the night the weak and the wicked is directed by henry's future husband, oscar nominated j'. '.strtoupper('l')ee thompson'. '.strtoupper('t')he film is featured here in a brand new transfer from original film elements, in its as exhibited theatrical aspect ratio'. '.strtoupper('j')ean raymond, an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts'. '.strtoupper('a')t first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there.