Caged!
by John Cromwell
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Actor: Agnes Moorehead, Davison Clark, Eleanor Parker, Hope Emerson, Olive CareyDirector: John Cromwell
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Carl Guthrie
Composer: Max Steiner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, 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: "Don't kid me, Harper's first name is filth."
Summary: 4 Stars
Eleanor Parker stars as Marie Allen in 1950's "Caged." Marie comes from a poor family but never had trouble with the law; however, she married young and her husband, in an act of desperation, holds up a gas station for $40. Her husband is killed in the robbery, and Marie, who drove the getaway car, is given 1-15 years in prison. When she arrives at the prison, she's a naive scared 19-year-old girl. When she leaves, she's a hardened woman who is likely to become a repeat offender. What happens in between makes up the bulk of the plot, as the women react to being "caged."
By today's standards, "Caged" is pretty tame, verging on unrealistic; however, for a 1950s movie, "Caged" is remarkably gritty, and it's often considered to be the granddaddy of women's prison movies. Fortunately, the movie also provides very good character sketches of the different women in Marie's prison block. The acting is uniformly good, with Parker scoring her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her progression from innocent waif to bitter criminal is quite believable and effective. Hope Emerson also received an Academy Award nomination for her supporting turn as Evelyn Harper, the scheming prison matron who taunts the women. Ellen Corby (probably best known as Grandma Walton) has fun in her role as a shifty murderess. The film also features Agnes Moorehead as the sympathetic superintendant; I usually love Moorehead, but she's a tad boring here.
The women in prison genre has been done many times since "Caged," often in a more sensationalistic style. Nevertheless, the movie is interesting and well worth watching. Some of the lines are great fun. Hope Emerson's matron character has some of the best, including when she tells the cell block, "Line up, you tramps. This ain't no upstairs delicatessen." I also laughed out loud when Marie says at the death of one of the characters, "Kindly omit the flowers." Some really terrific material that borders on camp.
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