Both Sides of the Law (1953)

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Country: UK
Genres: Crime, Drama
Release: 1954-01-11
Director: Muriel Box
Writers: Jan Read , Muriel Box , Sydney Box
Language: English
Stars: Anne Crawford , Peggy Cummins , Rosamund John , Terence Morgan , Barbara Murray , Ronald Howard , Eleanor Summerfield , Charles Victor , Michael Medwin , Thora Hird
Runtime: 94 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Gathörnet (Sweden) , Ulični ugao , Gatehjørnet (Norway) , An der Straßenecke , Street Corner (United Kingdom) , An der Straßenecke (Austria) , À Esquina da Rua (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Kadunkulma (Finland) , Angeloi sto dromo (Greece) , Both Sides of the Law (United States of America) , Street Corner (South Africa) , Street Corner , London ved nat (Denmark)
Plot: A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifting, but let off lightly. She has a small child, an often-absent husband and mother-in-law trouble. To compound that, she takes up with a petty hoodlum who commits a jewel robbery. The second story tells of a young girl who deserts the Army to marry a boy who needs her and commits bigamy in the process, but it all works out. The third story is about a baby who is mistreated by its father and stepmother, but is reunited, through police work, with its real mother.
IMDB:tt0046378