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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391145073
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 17382
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 1950
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/26/2007 Run time: 96 minutes
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Rating: - Female version of Shawshank Redemption
This is an underrated movie. For the time it was made, it contains a realism that was lacking in other films of its decade. It echoes the theme of "Shawshank Redemtion"; corrupt prison employees, uncaring government officials, and a decent soul who fell through the cracks. The difference is this film deals with women, and the main character loses the battle to maintain her dignity and the determination to turn her life around upon release. While there may be a brief feeling of satisfying revenge ... Read More
Rating: - "I'm a big girl, and this isn't my first year away from home!"
I loved reading all the excellent reviews of this movie, and don't have much more to add. I too first saw this back in the early 70's on the late show, and it immediately became one of my favorite movies. I'm glad it is finally on DVD, but wish there were more special features.
To those unaware, the 70's tv movie 'Born Innocent' (starring Linda Blair as a young innocent girl thrown into the harsh juvenille system) is a remake of 'Caged'. It was considered very controversial when it ... Read More
Rating:  - Parker is outstanding!
"Caged" (1950) is not as campy as the package would have you believe; the majority of this film is quite serious with a number of standout performances. Eleanor Parker is Marie Allen, a 19 year old who was somewhat innocently involved in her husband's botched armed robbery attempt (he is killed). Marie is sentenced to prison and mixed in with a lot of hardened criminals, an evil corrupt matron (Hope Emerson), and a few loonies to boot. It also turns out that Marie is pregnant; what a place to have ... Read More
Rating: - First Rate Film About Women's Prison
Most films about women's prisons have very likely been pornographic to one degree or another. "Caged" is not in this category. Rather its portrait of prison life is one of depressing harshness from start to finish. The film has an unmistakable theme: most prisons are breeders of new crime and criminals. Though "Caged" was directed by a man the principal scriptwriter was a woman, Virginia Kellogg, who spent several weeks inside a woman's prison, researched conditions in others, and claimed that ... Read More
Rating: - Gertrude Hoffman: "Lay A Hand On Me and I'll Put Your Lights Out!"
At one time, there were no Oscars for supporting actors, but because audiences came out of theatres raving about Walter Brennan's billiant supporting performances, a new category was born.
They should not have stopped there; some films have bit players that are so good, you never forget them. One for cameos should have been created after Ms. Hoffman's biting turn in this picture. Gertrude Hoffman, before she became 'Mrs. Odets' in the TV sitcom, "My Little Margie," graced the screen as ... Read More
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