The Young and the Guilty is a 1958 British drama film directed by Peter Cotes and starring Phyllis Calvert, Andrew Ray and Edward Chapman.

[5] Willis later wrote "with this script, for the first time, I did manage to clarify years of anguished thinking about television writing.

[10] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The direction (Peter Coles, is by turns cautious, laboured and frankly amateurish: the dialogue is given to repeating rather than developing its points, and the overall production looks cramped, with flat lighting producing an effect of visual monotony.

Andrew Ray, though, is over-emphatic for his part, while Janet Munro's performance seems too professionally mature and calculated for conviction.

Only Hilda Fenemore and Campbell Singer manage to achieve any depth in their characterisation without unconsciously parodying them.