Twilight Women (Women of Twilight) (1952)

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"This is a one-time hard hitting social drama looking at the plight of young, unmarried pregnant women in the early 1950's. The setting is a kind of boarding house owned by Freda Jackson in a typically hard and villainous performance; her role is to help the young women in her care to give birth before selling the unwanted children on for adoption. The movie covers mental illness, poverty, and crime, and was considered so hard-hitting in its day that it was the first British movie to be awarded a"