Turn the Key Softly (1953) – Nostalgia Central

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Flip The Key Softly follows the primary twelve hours of freedom for 3 girls after they’re launched from Holloway Jail at eight o’clock within the morning with their debt to society paid.

Stella Jarvis (Joan Collins) is a flighty, good-time lady on her method to marry her reliable bus conductor fiance, Bob (Glyn Houston); quiet and complex Monica Marsden (Yvonne Mitchell) has no illusions about life; and Mrs Quillam (Kathleen Harrison) is a lovable outdated Cockney kleptomaniac whose consuming ardour is her canine, Johnny.

The three girls half firm exterior the jail and promise to satisfy for a reunion that night.

However as night attracts close to, destiny takes a hand in every of their lives . . .

Bob provides Stella £3 to search for a room, however as quickly as he’s gone, she finds the intense lights beckon strongly once more and drifts again to her outdated haunts and her outdated streetwalker pals.

She spends the £3 on gaudy earrings, and when she bumps right into a drunk, she seizes the chance to go off with him.

The person objects to her earrings and tells her to purchase some extra. Stella takes solely £3 from his pockets, leaves the earrings with him and rushes off to satisfy Bob. Now she is secure once more.

Monica runs into David (Terence Morgan), the person she had cherished sufficient to assist him on a “job” however who abandoned her and left her to the police. He convinces Monica that he’s a reformed character, and she or he succumbs to his attraction as soon as once more.

However when she discovers he’s as much as his outdated tips, she turns the tables and leaves him to the mercy of the legislation.

Mrs Quillam goes again to her dingy bed-sit within the lodging home of Mrs Rowan (Thora Hird) and Johnny.

As she walks residence following a dinner with the others, she loses Johnny, and after looking out the streets for him, she all of the sudden spots the canine on the opposite facet of the highway.

She rushes throughout the busy thoroughfare and is knocked down and killed.

The movie options some hanging black-and-white images of London within the Fifties, giving it a pleasant nostalgic really feel.

Monica Marsden
Yvonne Mitchell
Stella Jarvis
Joan Collins
David
Terence Morgan
Granny Quilliam
Kathleen Harrison
Mrs Rowan
Thora Hird
Joan
Dorothy Alison
Bob
Glyn Houston
Mr Gregory
Geoffrey Eager
George Jenkins
Russell Waters
Walters
Clive Morton
Marie
Simone Silva