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    So Evil, So Young (1961)

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    Lucy Owens (Jocelyn Britton) and her friend Claire (Bernice Swanson) burgle some jewellery from a mansion but are disturbed by the butler who recognises Lucy as a former employee. Claire knocks him out so they can make good their escape.

    Knowing she will soon be arrested, Lucy gives all the jewellery to Claire for safekeeping until she eventually gets released but keeps a diamond bracelet for herself.

    Later, in a local club, Lucy encounters her musician ex-boyfriend Tom (John Charlesworth) talking to a pretty and respectable young lady named Ann Turner (Jill Ireland) and becomes extremely jealous. So Lucy slips the diamond bracelet into Ann’s coat pocket and when she is arrested, she tells the police that Ann was her accomplice.

    Ann denies the charges of robbery with violence but is found guilty and sent to a women’s reformatory for three years along with Lucy.

    Although Ann is treated well by the Matron (Joan Haythorne), she is subjected to sadistic abuse by the brutal head warden named Miss Smith (Ellen Pollock). A fellow prisoner called Mary (Sheila Whittingham) becomes Ann’s only friend and ally but, after a run-in with Miss Smith, hangs herself.

    Meanwhile, Ann’s father and Tom set about trying to clear her name.

    Produced by Edward and Harry Danziger, this watchable British exploitation quickie is incongruously shot in extremely pretty Technicolor. Shameless recyclers of their own material, the Danzigers reshuffled elements of So Young, So Bad (1950), Sentenced for Life (1960) and Man Accused (1959) to create So Evil, So Young.

    Ann Turner
    Jill Ireland
    Miss Smith
    Ellen Pollock
    Tom Hanks
    John Charlesworth
    Lucy Owens
    Jocelyn Britton
    Matron
    Joan Haythorne
    Jane
    Olive McFarland
    Mr Turner
    John Longden
    Mary
    Sheila Whittingham
    Inspector
    Colin Tapley
    Sam
    C. Denier Warren
    Claire
    Bernice Swanson
    Dear Old Moran
    Otto Diamant
    Butler
    Alastair Hunter
    Edna
    Gwendolyn Watts
    Sandra
    Sandra Alfred
    Eve
    Eve Eden
    Jill
    Gillian Watt
    Carol
    Carole Lorimer
    Irene
    Irene Barrie
    Rose
    Rosemary Rotheray

    Director
    Godfrey Grayson

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