The Weak and the Wicked (U.S. title: Young and Willing)[3] is a 1954 British drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Glynis Johns and Diana Dors.

Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society.

Female prisoners talk about the events that brought them there and each of their stories is detailed in a series of flashbacks; the upper-class Jean, the brash Betty, and the pregnant Pat.

[9] Diana Dors was cast only a few weeks after having been convicted in real life of stealing alcohol from a friend's house.

[14] The Monthly Film Bulletin said "The treatment of this story provides an unfortunate example of the malaise with which so much British script-writing is afflicted nowadays.

The basic situation is promising" but "against these back-grounds are paraded a prize collection of familiar feminine character types (alternately comic, sad and hysterical) – two-dimensional creatures, observed without insight or real compassion.

A robust cast that contains all the usual suspects (there's a fine performance from Diana Dors) acts out the story, which provides a meaty glimpse behind the clanging doors.