The Young and the Guilty (1958)

Interesting facts

The Young and the Guilty is a 1959 British drama film directed by Peter Cotes and starring Phyllis Calvert, Andrew Ray and Edward Chapman. It was written by Ted Willis.

Production

The film was based on a 1956 television play which author Ted Willis claims was based on a true story he had heard. This starred Andrew Ray and Jill Williams.

Willis later wrote "with this script, for the first time, I did manage to clarify years of anguished thinking about television writing. As I watched the play, and watched the faces of those few friends who saw it with me, I realized the terrifying potential of this intense, intimate, person-to-person hook-up which is television.

Most of the cast from the television cast repeated their performance in the film with a few exceptions. Janet Munro had not been on the television production. She claims she was cast on the strength of her performance in Small Hotel (1957).

The film's art direction was by Terence Verity.

Munro was later reunited with Ted Willis and Peter Cotes in Bitter Harvest (1963).

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