[citation needed] Tony Giani is a Soho pimp who preys on young provincial women who come to London seeking work.

She skillfully conveys the difficult characterization of a youthful femme on the downward path after falling for a plausible type who offers marriage.

[9] It is not listed in Kinematograph Weekly as one of the most popular British films of 1957 but the magazine said the movie was "enjoying a triumphant West End run".

There is some rather loose and high flown talk regarding a change in the law and licences for the streetwalkers, but in the main the film has to do with the downfall of a Graham Greene-style boy gangster, played with appropriate menace by John Derek.

Also to be enjoyed is Harold Lang's droll performance as a jaundiced gang-member"[11] Variety wrote "It is difficult to know what producer Raymond Stross had in mind with "The Flesh is Weak ... As a social document, it makes only the mildest impact and fails lamentably to say anything new or penetrating about an urgent problem.