Women Without Men

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. The screenplay concerns a woman who is unjustly sent to prison for an act which 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. Other new actors were Richard Travis, Harry Lauter and Paul Cavanagh. Beverly Michaels also appeared in the film's new ending sequence. Plot Cast Beverly Michaels as Angie Booth Joan Rice as Cleo Thora Hird as Granny Avril Angers as Bessie Paul Carpenter as Nick Hermione Baddeley as Grace Bill Shine as Reveller Gordon Jackson as Percy Valerie White as Governor Eugene Deckers as Pierre April Olrich as Margueritte Ralph Michael as Julian Betty Cooper as Evans Sheila Burrell as Babs Michael Golden as Bargee