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- Overall, this is a very good film for three reasons. It's best quality is that it's unique in so many ways...a major plus. It also has some terrific acting as well as brilliant cinematography--particularly late in the film during a chase sequence. Overall, not a lot to complain about apart from the depressing nature of some of the stories.
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A bitter burglar (Yvonne Mitchell), a prostitute (Joan Collins) and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail. A rather contrived British drama about three women newly released from...
- Jack Lee
- Drama
- Yvonne Mitchell
Turn the key softly 1953. A British drama based on a novel by John Brophy, of the same name. Three women, convicted for different crimes, happen to be released from the prison on the same morning. What happens on that day to them is the story.
Recent reviews. A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
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- Maurice Cowan Productions
- Jack Lee
Mar 10, 2021 · Turn the Key Softly is an unremarkable but pleasant enough B-movie that anticipates the British kitchen-sink-drama of the 1960s. The narrative lacks edge, and the ending is all wrong, but the film was competently shot, and the acting is good.
Turn the Key Softly: Directed by Jack Lee. With Yvonne Mitchell, Terence Morgan, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison. Follows three women through their first day of freedom after they are released from prison.
Turn the Key Softly received very positive reviews from contemporary critics, who noted with approval its realism and honesty; also its avoidance of the twin pitfalls in a storyline of this nature of either overly sentimentalising its characters or attempting to spice up proceedings with over-the-top melodrama or unnecessary plot twists and ...
