CAGED - DVD-CULT CAMP CLASSICS

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• Release Year: 1950
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: 'Will she comes out woman or wildcat?' trumpeted ads for this women-behind-bars classic. There's no question about how the film itself came out. Using familiar but sharply played characters to bring home its reform-minded message, 'Caged' remains a pivotal genre classic.; ; Best Actress Academy Award® nominee Eleanor Parker portrays the inmate whose transformation from sunny innocent to tight-lipped, worldwise con provides its focus. as the tyrannical floor matron, Best Supporting Actress nominee Hope Emerson is 6'2' of Grade-A malevolence. And an earnest prison superintendent, a sour lifer, a street-lamp tramp, a patsy, a society dame and other types add atmosphere to an Oscar®-nominated script co-writer Virginia Kellogg researched while posing on the inside as a convict.
• Cast: Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Betty Garde, Jan Sterling, Lee Patrick, Jane Darwell, Gertrude Michael, Sheila MacRae, George Baxter, Guy Beach, Don Beddoe, Gail Bonney, Lovyss Bradley, Jean Calhoun, Claudia Cauldwell, Pauline Creasman, Marjorie Crossland, Jane Crowley, Evelyn Dockson, Pauline Drake, Marlo Dwyer, Helen Eby-Rock, Virginia Engels, Barbara Esback, Edith Evanson, Grayce Hampton, Grace Hayes, Frances Henderson, Gertrude Hoffman, Taylor Holmes, Esther Howard, Bill Hunter, Hazel Keener, Doris Kemper, Margaret Lambert, Gracille LaVinder, Marie Melish, Tina Menard, Charles Meredith, Joan Miller, Frances Morris, Helen Mowery, Zon Murray, Eva Nelson, Joyce Newhard, Rosemary O'Neil, Ezelle Poule, Gladys Roach, Yvonne Rob, Naomi Robison, Carole Shannon, Lynn Sherman, Queenie Smith, Helen Spring, Eileen Stevens, Sheila Stuart, Nita Talbot, Wanda Tynan, Ann Tyrrell, Harlan Warde, June Whipple, Doris Whitney, Marjorie Wood, Peggy Wynne, John Cromwell, Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
• Director: John Cromwell
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Warner Brothers Pictures, Warner Bros. Home Video
• Media Format: Movie