Yield to the Night
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Yield to the Night (also titled Blonde Sinner in the US) is a 1956 British crime drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Diana Dors.
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Premise
Mary Hilton (Diana Dors) has been convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, and she spends her last weeks in the condemned cell in a British women's prison. While there she remembers the events in her life leading up to the murder.
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Cast
- Diana Dors – Mary Hilton
- Yvonne Mitchell – Matron Hilda MacFarlane
- Michael Craig – Jim Lancaster
- Marie Ney – Prison Governess
- Geoffrey Keen – Prison Chaplain
- Liam Redmond – Prison Doctor
- Olga Lindo – Senior Matron Hill
- Joan Miller – Matron Barker
- Marjorie Rhodes – Matron Brandon
- Molly Urquhart – Matron Mason
- Mary Mackenzie – Matron Maxwell (as Mary MacKenzie)
- Harry Locke – Fred Hilton
- Michael Ripper – Roy, bar good-timer
- Joyce Blair – Doris, storeclerk-friend
- Charles Clay – Bob
- Athene Seyler – Miss Bligh
- Mona Washbourne – Mrs. Thomas, landlady
- Alec Finter – Mr. Thomas, landlord (as Alex Finter)
- Mercia Shaw – Lucy
- Marianne Stone – New Matron Richardson
- Charles Lloyd-Pack – Mary's Lawyer
- Dandy Nichols – Mrs. Price
- John Charlesworth – Alan Price
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