Caged
Original Theatrical Date: May 19, 1950
While working on the story that would give birth to Caged, writer Virginia Kellogg (White Heat) reportedly went undercover inside a women's prison in her quest for truth. What emerged was one of the most noted—and notorious—pictures of the women-behind-bars sub-genre.
While its over-the-top mise-en-scene may place the picture in "camp" territory, Eleanor Parker's and Hope Emerson's performances elevate Caged from a cinema curio to a movie must-see.
When 19-year-old Marie Allen (Parker) arrives at a women's prison already pregnant, she finds herself at the center of a war for her soul waged between a reform-minded warden (Agnes Moorehead) and a sadistic matron (Emerson).
Genre: CrimeDrama