Caged!
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Actor: Agnes Moorehead, Davison Clark, Eleanor Parker, Hope Emerson, Olive CareyBrand: PARKER,ELEANOR
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Caged!
Movie Review: Beautiful, talented Eleanor Parker in peak form
Summary: 5 Stars
Ohio born Eleanor Parker was a ravishing beauty with a distinctive, beautifully modulated speaking voice who never quite reached the heights of stardom predicted for her by both critics and colleagues. Co-star Glenn Ford called her "the least heralded great actress" and Oscar winning director Robert Wise referred to Parker as "an artist of the first rank."
Placed under contract by Warner Brothers in 1942, Parker lacked the temperament to fight for the good roles that were offered first to Bette Davis, Ida Lupino and (later) Joan Crawford. Nor did she create an identifyable screen persona, preferring instead to disappear within her characters. Still, she carved out an impressive film career for herself which brought her three Academy Award nominations for Best Actress.
The best role of her Warner's career came at the very end of her studio contact in 1950. In John Cromwell's magnificent CAGED, Parker stars as Marie Allen, the innocent, pregnant young wife who's sent to prison for being an accomplice in her husband's crime. There, she's corrupted by the cruel and heartless penal system and the career criminals she's incarcerated with.
Eleanor Parker's transformation from frightened child-woman to bitter con is remarkable. Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep has written of her admiration of Parker's performance. "CAGED was one of the first films I ever saw," Streep wrote, "where I understood the transformation of character that is possible for an actress in a film." At the end of CAGED, when we see the hardened, embittered Marie emerge from prison, it's hard to beleive it's the same actress who was so frightened and innocent at the film's start.
Eleanor Parker received the first of her three Best Actress Oscar nominations for her stunning performance, and won the Venice Film Festival's Best Actress prize. And she's surrounded by a cast of equally fine actresses who are all at their best.
Hope Emerson, who may be best remembered now as the circus strong woman in ADAM'S RIB (1949), also received an Oscar nomination as the cruel, Amazonian prison matron, and Agnes Moorehead is equally fine as the kind, frustrated prison warden.
The marvelous Jan Sterling as Smoochie, the CP (common prostitue), has some of the films best lines which she delivers in great wise-cracking tradition. She is the film's comic relief, and provides some welcomed levity to the otherwise grim circumstances.
Warner's long-time character actress Lee Patrick also has some fine moments, as do Ellen Corby, Betty Garde, Olive Deering, Jane Darwell and Gertrude Michael.
But it's Parker's exceptional performance, and the fine direction of the under-rated John Cromwell, that make CAGED one of the best Warner Brother films of the decade.
Summary of Caged!
No Description Available.Genre: Cult
Rating: NR
Release Date: 26-JUN-2007
Media Type: DVD
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