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

[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.

The direction is brisk and there are some lively impersonations by Vera Day, Shirley Ann Field and Patricia Jessel among les girls.

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.