(The Woman in the Hall)

Content: Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

93 minutes

Year:

1947

Directors:

Jack Lee

Production companies:

Wessex Film Productions,

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Actors:

Lorna Blake

Jay Blake

Sir Halmar Barnard

Susan

Neil Inglefield

Crews:

Director

Screenplay

Director of Photography

Novel

Screenplay