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Turn the Key Softly is a 1953 British drama film directed by Jack Lee and starring Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison, and Terence Morgan. Lee and producer Maurice Cowan also wrote the screenplay, based on the 1951 novel of the same title by John Brophy, dealing with the first 24 hours of freedom for three women released on ...
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- Maurice Cowan, Earl St. John
Turn the Key Softly is a 1953 British drama film directed by Jack Lee and starring Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison, and Terence Morgan. Lee and producer Maurice Cowan also wrote the screenplay, based on the 1951 novel of the same title by John Brophy, dealing with the first 24 hours of freedom for three women released on ...
1953 Directed by Jack Lee. An Intimate Study in Passion and Suspense…! A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
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- Maurice Cowan Productions
- Jack Lee
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Jack Lee. Director, Screenplay. Maurice Cowan. Screenplay. A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
Three women are released from Holloway prison on the same morning into the bustle of post-war London with its trolleybuses and rationing. They meet for a meal in the West End in the evening after a day trying to pick up their lives, and at least two of them need to decide whether it is time to start afresh. — J-26.
Based on a novel by John Brophy, Turn the Key Softly takes place within a single day. The film follows the exploits of three newly released female convicts. Monica (Yvonne Mitchell) is full of hatred for the man who led her into a life of crime.
Atmospherically shot by veteran cameraman Geoffrey Unsworth (who later shot '2001'), this melodrama detailing the adventures of three women released from Holloway the same morning probably looks a lot better today than it did when it originally came out, aided by picturesque London location work as it looked in the chilly fifties and the noble features of Yvonne Mitchell in ravishing close-up ...
